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Noun
fundament (plural fundaments)
- Foundation.
- The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
- ✤ It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.1
- ✤ ANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck […]2
- ✤ Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament, beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.3
- ✤ I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector’s fundament.4
- The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundāmentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the bottom, to found”). Doublet of fondamento.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈfʌn.də.mənt/
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
- (Australian) IPA: /ˈfan.də.mənt/
- Hyphenation: fun‧da‧ment
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Link to original Footnotes
1703, Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized: ↩
1861, Aristotle (pseud.), Aristotle’s Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies., page 119 ↩
1864, Alfred Fennings, Fennings’everybody’s doctor; or, When ill, how to get well, page 9: ↩
2008, Eric Summers, Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West, page 38: ↩
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