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Ass may refer to:

  • The most common phonological and spelling variation of arse in American English, a word for the anus or for the buttocks
  • Ass, from Old English assa, ultimately from Latin asinus, is the older word for donkey
    • Wild ass may mean the wild donkey, or it may mean its wild relative the onager, also known as a "half ass" -another animal of the horse genus
    • Figuratively, a buffoon (fool, idiot, clown). The ass (donkey) typified clumsiness and stupidity since ancient times; asshead dates to 1550, to make an ass of oneself to 1590 - this has been conflated with "arse"
  • Asses is Scottish English for "Ashes"
  • "Asses" is also the (English and Latin) plural of the as, a Roman weight and unit of money
  • Abbreviation of assinatura, Portuguese for "sign(ature)".
  • In Old Norse mythology, an Áss is one of the Æsir
  • Ass is the local name of the Italian commune of Asso
  • Ass variations include and are not limited to: ass hole, jackass, ass-o-lantern, etc.

The acronym ASS stands for:


notes

  1. ass.” The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. www.bartleby.com/61/. Accessed 2006-10-23.

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