My buttocks, my butt, but no my butts? In my understanding, a buttock means one cheek. When I moon, I naturally show both of my cheeks, in another word, my buttocks. And even though butt is the slang

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My buttocks, my butt, but no my butts? In my understanding, a buttock means one cheek. When I moon, I naturally show both of my cheeks, in another word, my buttocks. And even though butt is the slang word for buttock, butt counts both cheeks as one unit, which means butt equals buttocks. So it is odd to say ‘show my butts’, am I right?

11 feb. 2015 02:50

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You are right. 'Butt' is a singular noun and refers to 'one unit', as you say. 'Butts' always makes me think of the running joke in The Simpson's, where Bart makes prank calls to Mo's Bar asking for people with silly names. In one episode he gets the bar owner to call out 'Seymour Butts! I wanna Seymour Butts!' And if anyone here wants to know when it IS acceptable to write the dreaded 'w' word, well, there's an example. When quoting cartoon dialogue, even a stuffy old schoolma'am like me is happy to write 'wanna'. But back to the butt: if you want a plural word to describe what you are showing when you are mooning, try 'buns'.

11 februari 2015

yes, my buttocks, my butt, but not my butts

11 februari 2015

If you want to talk about your "butt" individually, you would say "butt cheek". Example: My left butt cheek and my right butt cheek. It's slang, but it's what I'm used to. Also, you can say my butt cheeks. Some people spell it "butt cheek", and I've also seen it as "butt-cheek". Hope this helped! -Kyle

11 februari 2015

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