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noun
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
"he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
buttocks
nates
arse
butt
backside
bum
buns
can
fundament
hindquarters
hind end
keister
posterior
prat
rear
rear end
rump
stern
seat
tail
tail end
tooshie
tush
bottom
behind
derriere
fanny
ass
lowest support of a structure
"it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
foundation
base
fundament
foot
groundwork
substructure
understructure
the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
"the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"
basis
base
foundation
fundament
groundwork
cornerstone
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