Definitions for asses

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asses ass·es

Spelling: [as-iz]

IPA: /ˈæs ɪz/

Asses is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in asses (aesss).

Definitions for asses

noun

1. plural of ass1 .
2. plural of as2 .
3. a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden.
4. any wild species of the genus Equus, as the onager.
5. a stupid, foolish, or stubborn person.
6. Cape fox.
7. a copper coin and early monetary unit of ancient Rome, originally having a nominal weight of a pound of 12 ounces: discontinued c80 b.c.
8. a unit of weight equal to 12 ounces.
9. the buttocks.
10. the rectum.
11. Slang. sexual intercourse.

Origin of asses

before 1000; Middle English asse, Old English assa, probably hypocoristic form based on Old Irish asan Latin asinus; akin to Greek ónos ass

Examples for asses

My mother, who saw that I did not relish the asses' milk, put in a word for me.

How true is it, that "sailors make their money like horses, and spend it like asses!"

While the asses may not all be exactly the same, the message definitely is: Work out to get a butt.

Their dogs and their asses might bear his name, but their own lives and liberty must answer to it.

You might as well affirm the existence of mules, and deny that of horses and asses.

Now, when you Google “Brian Lederman” the first result describes him as someone who “grabs a lot of asses.”

As much as it pains Americans to admit this, Ronaldo saved our asses.

We thanked them on stage for saving our asses and supporting indie music.

And every day, we bust our asses to continue “making it,” but we most certainly have not “made it.”

An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."