(n.) The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.
Example Sentences:
(1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(2) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(3) Speaking at a press conference following the preview of his latest film, Melancholia, von Trier expressed sympathy for Hitler, remarked that Israel was "a pain in the arse" and jokingly confessed to being a Nazi .
(4) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
(5) With Veep , rather than striving young idealists, you have cowardly egomaniacs and bunglers who are involved in endless arse-covering exercises.
(6) Matilda, he says, plays to "the classic kids' fantasy that one day they just turn up and kick everyone's arse".
(7) New Zealand 0-1 McMillan c Harbhajan b Zaheer 0 A half-arsed shout for lbw first ball, and then this: McMillan clips the ball lazily off his legs to square leg, and it's an easy catch for Singh.
(8) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
(9) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
(10) "Hiddink should stop sticking his head up other players' arses," opined Davids to one foreign journalist afterwards.
(11) The ball gone, he connects with Armero's arse instead!
(12) A mysterious form of ill-fortune, it seems – possibly a "condition" but not needful of medicalisation, and certainly not of funding; just pity, maybe, or sometimes giggling, or a judicious kick in the arse.
(13) Ester Percivati, a young Turkish woman, recalled guards calling her a whore as she was marched to the toilet, where a woman officer forced her head down into the bowl and a male jeered "Nice arse!
(14) My dear) and that Solange piled in on her sister's behalf, all the better to persuade him to get his sorry arse home.
(15) Aside from the sheer filth factor, not washing your jeans means they will lose their shape (two words: baggy arse), smell and look dirty, because they are dirty.
(16) Certainly not Sean DeLoughry, Steven Smith and Seamus McCann, all of whom correctly recalled how, after blazing his way through Germany (Stuttgart), Italy (AC Milan), and Spain (Espanyol), Raducioiu blasted three goals in West Ham colours before half-arsing his way back to Espanyol, and eventually on to Monaco in France.
(17) It was very difficult, because I fundamentally believe that we have a problem with representation that needs to be tackled and feminism needs to be for everyone, but having a platform means that people without one direct their anger at you, at your face and at your writing, and, as a half-arsed feminist, I'm still learning how to cope with the pressure to represent everyone, all the time.
(18) Can't make it all out, but it does include the charming line 'He slipped on his fucking arse.'
(19) "Both my Mum and my Dad, who began having contact again, made it clear I wouldn't be allowed to just sit on my arse."
(20) Maloney goes over in the box under heat from Asatiani, but he knows full well there's nothing in the challenge and his appeals for a penalty are nearly as half-arsed as Scotland's overall performance.
Fanny
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week we had a very funny conversation about how we both enjoy the term ‘fannying about’.
(2) The two main housing agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, have been in limbo for four years and are desperately in need of reform that should start this fall, but there is scant attention to the problem.
(3) 21 min: Vittek races down the inside right channel to win a ball he should never have been allowed to win - Criscito was fannying around - and wins a corner.
(4) "The Great Barrier Reef is definitely at a crossroad and decisions that will be taken over the next one, two, three years might potentially be crucial for the long-term conservation [of the reef]," said Fanny Douvere, from Unesco's World Heritage marine programme.
(5) Romney fielded former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and a leading Florida politician, Will Weatherford, to hold a phone-conference with reporters over Gingrich's time with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
(6) The FHFA lawsuit, which follows a subpoena issued to the banks last year, demands that the banks pay compensation to cover some of the $30bn (£18.5bn) Fannie and Freddie lost on mortgage-backed securities.
(7) Mortgage firm sues over Libor US mortgage finance company Fannie Mae sued nine of the world's largest banks yesterday, including Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland, accusing them of colluding to manipulate interest rates and seeking more than $800m of damages.
(8) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).
(9) Opposition whip and member for Fannie Bay, Michael Gunner, will run against Lawrie, who he claims has lost credibility after the supreme court found she sought to undermine an inquiry into her controversial granting of a rent-free lease to unions.
(10) In the recent Face the Nation interview, Gingrich was asked about civil charges that had recently been brought by top financial watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission against Fannie and Freddie executives alleging they misinformed people about the risky subprime loans that mortgage giants held when the housing bubble burst.
(11) It began with four nervous girls writing anonymous poetry and has swelled to more than 100 members calling themselves the #FDL – the female or "fanny" defence league – which has made films, a music video and met Gove.
(12) It was a strange purchase considering that Cano is not the kind of player that puts a wild amount of fannies in the seats - he’s just not a marquee draw, for whatever reason, despite his tremendous talents.
(13) Since starting [the programme], all women have delivered HIV-negative babies, which has contributed to reducing child mortality in this area,” says Fanny Luwemba, a buddy volunteer in Sandi village.
(14) And I cherish stories of Fannie Lou Hamer singing “This Little Light of Mine ” just as much as I love tales of Harriet Tubman leading slaves home to the north – but tales of black exceptionalism are set in obvious contrast to the stereotypical and still resonant idea of lazy slaves and disenfranchised sharecroppers.
(15) With only three votes out of eight, Lawrie will need about 60% of the membership’s vote to retain power against challenger Michael Gunner, the member for Fannie Bay.
(16) On Thursday, Moody's threatened to downgrade the AAA ratings of government lenders Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Federal Home Loan Banks and Federal Farm Credit Banks, illustrating the vulnerability of the already depressed housing market to a government default.
(17) In an interview with ABC on Monday morning, Gingrich denied he had ever worked as a lobbyist for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and had only been an adviser.
(18) 7.54pm GMT 9 min: Colback is in plenty of space down the left, but there's no option for him in the centre, so he checks back and fannies around awhile.
(19) We are Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer, women who could do as much as any man and then some; and we’re Susan B Anthony, who shook the system until the law reflected that truth.
(20) From it, Schweinsteiger and Lahm fanny around for ages before the latter finally gets a cross in.