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Who gives a crap about anything when your ass is the perfect distance from your knees?

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  1. noun Any of several hoofed mammals of the genus Equus, resembling and closely related to the horses but having a smaller build and longer ears, and including the domesticated donkey.
  2. noun A vain, self-important, silly, or aggressively stupid person.
  3. noun The buttocks.
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  • Get down there and lick his ass we'll get to you in a minute Steve's mouth licking on and in my ass was a new experience for me. —  XXXX
  • Who gives a crap about anything when your ass is the perfect distance from your knees? —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Even if he's freaky, and his ass is accustomed to large insertions ... the lubricant will dry up pretty fast. —  Daily Rotten
  • They're a frickin 'huge pain in the ass is all they are to us! —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • We don't need Yoko Ono to remind us that her ass is a hideous thing to behold, any more than we need Bill Maher to remind us that the dreary architecture of his soul* makes Yoko's ass look like Grace Kelly. —  One Cosmos
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ass:   asses
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English asse, from Old English assa, perhaps of Celtic origin, ultimately from Latin asinus.
  2. Middle English ars, from Old English ears; see ors- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English as, ass, asse, from Anglo-Saxon assa, masculine (feminine assen, not *asse), an isolated form, perhaps adapted from Old Northumbrian assald, asald, asal (which is from the Celtic), the earlier form, of the common Teutonic type, being esol, esul = Old Saxon esil = Dutch ezel (later English easel, q. v.) = Old High German esil, Middle High German G. esel (later Danish esel, œsel) = Gothic (Moesogothic) asilus (cf. Irish and Gaelic asal = Manx assyl, and Old Bulgarian osĭlŭ = Bohemian osel = Polish osiel, osiol (barred l) = Russian oselū = Lithuanian asilas = Old Prussian asilis), prob. the same, with variant termination, as Icelandic asni, masculine, asna, feminine, = Swedish åsna = Danish asen (cf. Welsh asyn = Cornish asen = Breton azen); all apparently (the Slav. and Lithuanian forms through Teutonic) from Latin asinus (later Italian asino = Spanish Portuguese asno = Provencal asne = Old French asne, French ânc) = Greek ο\νος (orig. *οσνος?), an ass; perhaps ult. of Semitic origin; cf. Hebrew āthōn, a she-ass. Cf. German assel, especially in comp. keller-assel (also keller-esel), a wood-louse, so named from its color, from Latin asellus, a little ass, diminutive of asinus; cf. Greek ὁνος, a wood-louse.
  2. Scotch form of ash.
 

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