arse about
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "You've got this arse-about!"
- "For the dome of the belly turned arse about has its parallel in the eye that falls out like the contents of a broken egg and that in its evocation of and preempting of regeneration becomes, in Bataille's novel, unremittingly erotic and polymorphously perverse."
- "Strike me if wasn't thinking old Colonel Bill had got it arse about."
- "‘This is arse-about, you know,’ I said. ‘You′ve got the athletic skills, and I'm the one going mountain climbing.[…].’"
Usage
- British usage
- Intransitive verb
- Slang
- Obsolete