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Buttocks vs Gluteus - What's the difference?

buttocks | gluteus |

As nouns the difference between buttocks and gluteus

is that buttocks is while gluteus is (anatomy) one of the several muscles of nates, which arises from a pelvis and inserted into a femur.

buttocks

English

Noun

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  • * 1707 , , "Moll Quarles's Answer to Mother Creswell of Famous Memory" in The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho. Brown, containing Letters from the Dead to the Living both Serious and Comical , part three, page 184:
  • At lea?t five Hundred of the?e reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ran?acking our Hou?es, leaving me ?ometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ?o much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}

    gluteus

    English

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    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (anatomy) One of the several muscles of nates, which arises from a pelvis and inserted into a femur.
  • (slang, informal) Short for gluteus maximus, the large muscles in the human buttocks.
  • :I'm going to kick your gluteus .
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