stern n.
1. the buttocks; thus -sterned sfx, having buttocks of a specified kind.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Faerie Queene Bk I Canto xi Stanza 28: He [...] gan his sturdy sterne about to weld. | |
| ‘A Step to Stir-Bitch-Fair’ in Writings (1704) 257: She acquiesc’d her Dutch-built Stern into a Sedential posture at the Upper-end of the Table. | |
| Humours of a Coffee-House 17 Oct. 378: If you don’t like my Tale, you may kiss my Stern. | |
| Burlesque Homer (4th edn) I 42: Patroclus, fetch this square-stern’d jade. | |
| Military Sketch-book I June c.207: ‘Here’s this bl—y Murphy stickin’ a sword into my stairn’. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) Sept. 6 n.p.: Her corporation drawn in and her stern bulged out. | |
| ‘Tim Snip’ in Cove in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 216: He went to the window, his stern there did place, / Which Tim kiss’d, tho’ he thought she had a swell’d face. | |
 | ‘The Saucy Hell-Cat and the Indiaman’ in Lloyd’s Companion 19 Sept. 2/4: [B]ringing his pistol into juxtaposition with his companion’s stern. | |
| Peeping Tom (London) 17 66/2: Then Ann did turn, upon her stern. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bell’s Life in Sydney 4 July 3/2: ‘I’ve Bought the Ring’ Words by Bosh. Music by Frozenstern. | |
| Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 315: Jonathan then hoisted his great sternpost into the saddle. | |
| Book of Precedence (E.E.T.S.) Forewords xxiii: We don’t want to deceive ourselves about them, or fancy them cherubs without sterns [F&H]. | |
| Won in a Canter I 263: Nothing was now to be seen of the pack but their sterns feathering in the thick gorse [Ibid.] 264: [T]he hounds were well away on a burning scent, with their heads up and sterns down. | |
| Dead Bird (Sydney) 10 Aug. 1/4: ‘You speak of the general “with her stern front,” and what we want to know is, how could any one have his stern in front?’. | |
| (con. 1836) Regiment 16 Apr. 47/2: First and foremost, our tails—they hung from our heads to our sternpost—all the ship’s company wore them. | |
| Athenaeum 8 Feb. 176 3: He was taught nothing, except that jumping to any word of command saved his bows from cuffing, his stern from kicking [F&H]. | |
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 16 Nov. 8/7: A girl in flimsy silk so white / [...] / Pulled tight around an ample stern. | |
| Sub 88: I’ve ’urt me stern somethin’ crool. | |
| Look Homeward, Angel (1930) 191: Among those dancing were [...] Messrs. I.C. Bottom, U.B. Freely, R.U. Reddy, O.I. Lovett [...] and J. Broad Stern. | |
| Battlers 79: Here’s Dick and me been sitting on our sterns all day waiting for the cow, and he don’t show up. | |
| Jimmy Brockett 110: Her stern moved under her dress like a couple of water melons. |
2. the anus.
| Nocturnal Meeting 91: A copious injection into the two plump sterns. |
In compounds
anal sex or intercourse from the rear.
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. | |
| Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 235: Stern Job. Anal intercourse. |
1. the buttocks.
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Real Life in Ireland 244: The two worthies turned their sternposts to the fire, as it is very customary in Ireland for gentlemen to do. | |
| Navy at Home I 141: The stocking — which now ballasted with a pound or so of sand, was seen flying back in the air and descending with a vengeance on the greater delinquent's stern post. |
2. the penis.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
(US gay) a passive male homosexual.
| et al. DAUL 210/1: Stern-wheeler. (Mississippi Valley) A passive pederast. | |
| Maledicta III:2 233: Still more words of this fucking vocabulary are [...] sternwheeler. |
In phrases
(Aus.) head over heels.
| Jimmy Brockett 62: When a smart alec called one of my ushers a poofter one night I was into him like a shot. I hit him on the chin and he went stern over appetite. |