🇬🇧 Buttock meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A buttock is one of the two soft, round parts of your bottom. You have a left buttock and a right buttock, and together they help make a cushion when you sit down. They help you balance, sit, and move, and they are covered by your clothes, like pants or shorts.

My left buttock landed on the grass, my right buttock landed in the mud, and my pride landed nowhere.

I put a sticker on my buttock by accident, so all day I was secretly labeled "fragile."

During musical chairs, my buttock won the last seat by landing faster than my brain could think.

I tripped and somehow my buttock said hello to every stair on the way down.

Your buttocks are some of the strongest muscles in your body, which means your buttock is secretly a superhero helping you stand, walk, and jump!

He dropped his sandwich and sat on the park bench. His left buttock struck a nail; his right buttock slid onto paint. A sharp pinch on one buttock made him leap, then a splinter pricked the other buttock. He stood, rubbed each buttock, grinned at the messy sandwich, and walked home with a limp but a laugh.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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