Uke vs Bottom - What's the difference?
uke | bottom |
The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
(Japanese fiction) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
* 2008 , Tan Bee Kee, "Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952,
* 2010 , Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek , Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801,
* 2010 , Kyoka Wakatsuki, "Afterword", in The Selfish Demon King , Digital Manga Publishing (2010), ISBN 9781569701324,
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The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses:
# (rfc-sense) The part furthest in the direction toward which an unsupported object would fall.
#* Macaulay
#* Washington Irving
# (rfc-sense) The part seen, or intended to be seen, nearest the edge of the visual field normally occupied by the lowest visible objects, as "footers appear at the bottoms of pages".
(uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
(British, US) a valley, often used in place names.
* Stoddard
(euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
(nautical) a cargo vessel, a ship.
* 1881 , :
(nautical) certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
* Shakespeare
* Bancroft
(baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
(LGBT, slang) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.
(physics) A bottom quark.
(often, figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
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A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
* Mortimer
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
An abyss.
(obsolete) Power of endurance.
(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
To fall to the lowest point.
* John J. Murphy, Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships (2004) p. 119:
To establish firmly; to found or justify on'' or ''upon'' something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest ''on'' or ''upon something which provides support or authority.
* Atterbury
* South
* United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives , (2001) p.59.
To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
* John Locke
To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
(obsolete) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
* Shakespeare
To furnish with a bottom.
To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
The lowest or last place or position.
Bottom is a synonym of uke.
As nouns the difference between uke and bottom
is that uke is ukulele while bottom is the lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses.As a verb bottom is
to fall to the lowest point.As an adjective bottom is
the lowest or last place or position.uke
English
Etymology 1
From by shortening.Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)page 142:
- Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.
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- You'd rather have Sebas be an uke ?
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- Shizuku is so, so, so'' cute! I love him as an ''uke so much I can't stand it!
Antonyms
* seme ----bottom
English
Noun
- barrels with the bottom knocked out
- No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
- lack bottom
- Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom ?
- the bottoms and the high grounds
- We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]
- My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
- Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.
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- Silkworms finish their bottoms in fifteen days.
- (Dryden)
- a horse of a good bottom
- (Johnson)
Synonyms
* (lowest part) base * (buttocks) arse (British, Australian, NZ''), ass, fanny (''North American ), backside, bot, bott, botty, bum, buttocks * sit upon, derriere * (BDSM) catcher * (LGBT) catcher, passive, pathic, uke (Japanese fiction) * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (lowest part) top * (BDSM) top * (LGBT) active, pitcher, top, versatileVerb
(en verb)- The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed''' on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index '''bottomed on October 24.
- Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
- those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state
- Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
- Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms .
- As you unwind her love from him, / Lest it should ravel and be good to none, / You must provide to bottom it on me.
- to bottom a chair
Adjective
(en adjective)- ''Those files should go on the bottom shelf.