Backset vs Backside - What's the difference?
backset | backside |
A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water.
* Harper's Magazine
(US, Western US) To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
(Webster 1913)
The side of something that is opposite the front.
The buttocks.
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As nouns the difference between backset and backside
is that backset is a check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback while backside is the side of something that is opposite the front.As a verb backset
is to plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.backset
English
Noun
(en noun)- Slackwater, or the backset caused by the overflow.
Verb
backside
English
Noun
(en noun)- The backside of the building faced an alley, and was covered in grime and scrawled graffiti.
- ''After riding the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside .
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- There was a whiff of farce about Southampton’s second goal too, as, six minutes later, a bungled Sunderland pass ricocheted off Will Buckley’s backside to the feet of Dusan Tadic.