Where does “buttocks” come from?

Buttocks comes from Middle English buttok, from Old English buttuc, of unknown origin.

buttocks (English): plural of buttock

Definitions

  1. plural of buttock

Ancestry of “buttocks”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbuttockEach of the two large fleshy halves of the...
2Middle Englishbuttok—
3Old Englishbuttucend, small piece of land; end; end piece”; also,...

Words derived from “buttocks”

Every word from Old English buttuc →Every word from Middle English buttok →Every word from English buttock →