Definitions
Etymologies
- From French derrière, meaning behind or bottom (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I say and they say "I can't, I'm too nervous!" the endless airtrains flybarts and chugamucks on either side of the airport and...hmm, whatever happened to the Hare Krishnas in airports anyway -- okay, I'm enraged that they, like the use of the word derriere on TV commercials, have vanished from my life -- but you know what?”
““But madam,” he said, “you must know that you’re derriere is exposed!””
“The other, called the derriere, is the cheapest, but is generally filled with low people.”
“In "Culo," Miami's Cuban reggaeton / hip-hip superstar delivers a tribute, much like Mos Def, to the "culo," better known as derriere or ass.”
“No serving politician deserves that kind of derriere-smooch, especially since it simply isn't true.”
“-- Language: About a dozen mild expletives and a crude three-letter word for "derriere" are used.”
“The highbrow study claims to demonstrate the huge contribution the "derriere" has made to civilisation, mixing the views of top psychoanalysts, philosophers, scientists and artists.”
“Headmasters for giving ‘me’ derriere 6 of the best for smoking behind the loo.”
“Without a pause, and before my Dominican-derriere hit the chair, I put on my best Charo accent, "Do I es'eem Es-panic do ju 'now?”
The Huffington Post: Carmen Wong Ulrich: Color Me Right: Sharron Angle, 'Asian' Is Not a Compliment
“Raul started by folding the sheet down to her derriere, revealing her naked back.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘derriere’.
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buttocks
words for buttocks and anything
to do with buttockshiney, heiney, nates, hindquarters, bum, backside, behind, bottom, breech, bunny, butt, can and 160 more...
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*e?e
Words whose last and third-to-last letters are both "e".
here, eke, were, complete, mete, replete, adhere, where, mere, sphere, austere, aesthete and 99 more...
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Vega's Logophile Dictionary
Words I've heard/read in use, words being learnt, words that I want to eventually use in everyday language, words that are high-brow and elitist and scholarly and obscure, words that display the wo...
parsimonious, torpor, recalcitrant, plebeian, vitriol, gumption, augur, aestival, celerity, diaphanous, farrago, nonpareil and 287 more...
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andrew.simone's Words
elan, prestidigitation, flummoxed, autochthonous, missive, hoi polloi, schadenfreude, frou-frou, oolong, burleseque, ontic, etymology and 165 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (D)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
desert rose, dabble, daffodil, dagger, dairymaid, daisy, damask, damson, dappled, dart, dashed, dauphin and 111 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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ccombs's Words
fungible, fecund, tiku, howsabout, sanguine, phlegmatic, derriere, fortuitous, corpulent, irascible, hypotenuse, hirsute and 1 more...
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tiger's words
oscillate, serendipitous, wabi, oxymoron, brobdingnagian, quixotic, callipygian, schadenfreude, serendipity, spleen, surreptitious, perspicacious and 46 more...
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herrherr's list
vicenarian, kretek, portmanteau, neologism, medomalacuphobia, outre, ootheca, cantankerous, cockamamie, poppycock, pshaw, uroboros and 40 more...
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Funny Words
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most pleasant sounding words
gurgle, flow, sigh, orgasm, please, serendipity, riffle, derriere, breast, ribald
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My favorite words as of now
callipygian, pusillanimous, derriere, podex, nates, prat, flaccid
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LostSoul's Words
slubberdegullion, blackguard, boulevardier, flâneur, stultify, poltroon, crepuscular, roué, rogue, scoundrel, rotter, cad and 14 more...
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Prolagus
(California girls, by The Magnetic Fields) Feb 26, 2011
asativum Also, in French, the polite response to thanks. Oct 1, 2008