Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

assback

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ass-back
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The back of a donkey.

adv

On the back of a donkey.

Example Sentences

"1691, uncredited translators, Plutarch’s Morals, Part 2, London: T. Sawbridge et al., p. 224, […] they took her and set her on Ass-back, and led her round about the City,"
"The way of riding most used in this place is on assback."
"Riding on assback was accounted a disgrace and a degradation to the Gothic hidalgo,"
"1994, Robert Kelly, “In Irish America” in Queen of Terrors, Kingston, NY: McPherson, p. 56, […] tune soft as the assback my Savior rode from Jericho to Caerleon."
"[…] I should have thought a great chief had something better to do than to play chess either horseback or assback."
"That samurai is surely fast alive In his hunched and silhouetted dozing, assback, In the blur of fog,"

Etymology

From ass + back.

Inflected Forms

assbacks (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

assload panniers muleback horseback

Synonyms

donkeyback

Questions

What does assback mean?: The back of a donkey.
Where does assback come from?: From ass + back.

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