arse

noun

1. 1

   A person's buttocks; the bottom, the backside. Also: the anus; the rectum.

   As the novel progresses, he is shot in the hand with his own gun, shot in the arse with someone else's and lacerated by a prosthetic weed trimmer.

   No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse.

2. 2

   slangA stupid, pompous, arrogant, mean or despicable person.

   “You're an arse,” Ellen said. ¶ “Please? You must like something about me …?” ¶ “I do. You're an arse. I just told you that. I feel comfy with you, because you're such an arse.”

   He looked at me, was just about to call me an arse, when I told him, “You throw it too hard. Try and think of the javelin hitting the target before you throw it. Let it all go through your mind first, see it, feel it, then throw it.” ¶ “Good advice, you arse,” he said and tried again.

   Felnigg. What a suppurating arse. Look at him. Arse.

3. 3

   slangUsed in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.

4. 4

   slangA person; the self; (reflexively) oneself or one's person, chiefly their body; (by extension) one's personal safety, or figuratively one's job, prospects, etc.

verb

1. 1

   slangTo be silly, act stupid or mess around.

   Stop arsing around!

   He was university material, just arsing about as a rigger, arsing about, killing time with bohunks like me[…].

   Pi, upset, roars, "Quit arsing around there and get cracking," and a dozen heads turn their way.

   He was half-expecting a call from the lingua, telling him to stop arsing around, but his com stayed silent, so it looked like a certain amount of arsing around was allowed.

interjection

1. 1

   An expression of frustration.

   (euphemistic)

Forms

plural

arses

past tense

arsed

past participle

arsed

present participle

arsing

third person singular

arses