big-arsedadj.
/ˈbɪɡɑːst/, U.S. /ˈbɪɡˌɑrst/, Australian English /ˈbɪɡʌːst/ slang (chiefly British and Australian).
1. Of a person: that has large buttocks (often depreciative). Earliest in extended use: (of a thing) that has a wide base or bottom; = big-assed adj. 1.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [adjective] > types of > person having
bottle-arsedc1550
big-arsed1810
big-assed1944
1810 J. Paterson Poems Var. Subj. 110 Water-drinkers stand mair sicker Than they wha drink the burnin' liquor, An' aften toom the big-arsed bicker To quench their drowth.
c1890 My Secret Life III. xi. 139 Esther... Big-arsed and bandy-legged.
1942 S. O'Casey Pictures in Hallway 157 Here's his platter-faced sisther, Biddy.., her big-arsed, lumpy body lumberin' up the stairs.
1991 A. McCarten Modest Apocalypse & Other Stories 17 It was the big-arsed guy..who often carried an export six-pack.
2015 New Statesman 16 Jan. 26 Georges Wolinski..was loved for his drawings of big-arsed women with attitude.
2. Extremely big, huge, massive; impressive; = big-assed adj. 2.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge
unmeeteOE
unmeetlyOE
hugea1275
hideousc1330
infinitec1385
unmeasureda1398
unmeasurablec1405
hugyc1420
immeasurable1440
ingentc1450
unmeetlyc1450
giant1480
immense1490
monstrous?a1513
unmeasurely1513
hugeousa1529
unportable1537
enormous1544
enormc1560
giantly1561
immensible1579
rouncival1582
dismeasured1584
vast1585
immeasured1590
gargantuan1596
omnipotent1596
colossian1601
immane1601
prodigious1601
Polyphemian1602
Titanian1603
titanical1603
gigantical1604
immensive1604
gigantine1605
colossic1607
gigantean1611
Gogmagotical1612
gigantal?1614
Babylonian1617
leviathan1625
titanic1628
elephantine1631
gigantive1638
colossean1644
decumanal1652
immensurate1654
gigant1658
decuman1659
colossal1664
abnormous1710
Brobdingnagian1728
Brobdingnag1731
Pantagruelian1737
heroic1785
Patagonian1786
seven-league1787
Titan1793
gigantic1797
seven-leagued1799
mammoth1801
dimensionless1813
tremendous1813
gigantesque1821
monster1837
titanesque1838
monstre1840
giantlike1847
leviathanic1848
pythonic1851
Babylonic1853
supercolossal1871
giantesque1909
behemothian1910
supergiant1919
ginormous1942
big-ass1945
Ozymandian1961
fuck-off1962
mega1968
humongous1970
monstro1970
big-assed1972
big-arsed1996
1996 S. Home Slow Death 224 We caused that big-arsed rumble yesterday and yet none of us even gets a name-check in the papers!
2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) viii. 168 My father and I started having these big-arsed arguments.
2008 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 July 52 In the Bowen Basin mining town.., where rents can run to $800 a week, ‘everyone's got a big-arsed television.’
2015 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 17 Oct. 1 The Atlantic oceanic whitetip—it's a shark, and a big-arsed shark at that.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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