hindquarter

English

Etymology

hind +‎ quarter

Noun

hindquarter (plural hindquarters)

Either rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
(in the plural) The hind biped (leg) of a quadruped, or all body parts situated behind the hind legs' trunk-attachment.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  
  While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.
(metonymically, derogatory, usually in the plural) Human behind, butt.

Translations

rear half of a side of an animal

Dutch: achtereinde (nl) n, achterhand (nl) n
Finnish: takaneljännes

Swedish: bakfjärding c, bakbog c
Tagalog: pamahuli

hind leg of a quadruped

Armenian: բուդ (hy) (bud)
Dutch: achtereinde (nl) n, achterhand (nl) n
Finnish: takajalka

Irish: ceathrú deiridh f
Tagalog: pamahuli

human behind

Dutch: achtereinde (nl) n, achterwerk (nl) n, achterste (nl) n
Finnish: ahteri (fi)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: akterende (no) m, akterspeil (no) n

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French: ^{(please verify)} derrière (fr)

References

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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