fundament

[ fuhn-duh-muhnt ]

noun

1. the buttocks.
2. the anus.
3. a base or basic principle; underlying part; foundation.

fundament

/ ˈfʌndəmənt /

noun

1. euphemistic.
   the buttocks
2. the natural features of the earth's surface, unaltered by man
3. a base or foundation, esp of a building
4. a theory, principle, or underlying basis

Word History and Origins

Origin of fundament¹

1250–1300; < Latin fundāmentum foundation; replacing Middle English fondement < Old French. See found ¹, -ment

Word History and Origins

Origin of fundament¹

C13: from Latin fundāmentum foundation, from fundāre to found ²

Example Sentences

"Better that your hand should leave the plowhandle from time to time to warm his lazy fundament," the Sarki said.

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A strong decoction makes a useful wash for falling of the womb, or fundament.

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If anyone did scramble up into a tree, thinking there to be safe, he rent up his perinee, and impaled him in at the fundament.

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(It rises and falls with the inhaling and exhaling breaths up to the pericranium and thence down to the fundament).

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Yet they are the very basis and fundament of any attempt to better the general health.

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