Citations:barebutt

English citations of barebutt

Adjective: "alternative spelling of bare-butt"

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• 1953 — Will Henry, To Follow a Flag, Random House (1953), page 59:

  And when the old Coeur d'Alene priest said "seasoned braves" he wasn't talking about tipi Indians or mission mascots. And he wasn't talking about oldsters or squaws or barebutt kids.

• 1969 — David Helton, King Jude, Simon and Schuster (1969), page 174:

  What are you Jude doing sitting on the sofa barebutt and weeping?

• 1973 — Aaron Marc Stein, The Finger, Doubleday (1973), →ISBN, page 53:

  That is exactly what the fat man said; and as he said it, he rolled his eyes upward as though in direct communication with some barebutt cherubs in English garden-party hats that were painted on the ceiling.

• 1980 — Belinda Hurmence, Tough Tiffany, Doubleday (1980), →ISBN, page 61:

  You're bowlegged, she told her. You walk like you're riding barebutt on a porcupine.

• 1991 — Frank Chin, Donald Duk, Coffee House Press (1991), →ISBN, page 7:

  He does not want his Uncle Donald Duk to tell him again how Daddy was a terrible man to name his little boy Donald Duk, because all the bokgwai, the white monsters, will think he is named after that barebutt duck in the top half of a sailor suit and no shoes.

• 1991 — Gary Snyder: Dimensions of a Life (ed. John Halper), Sierra Club Books (1991), →ISBN, page 3:

  I think that we first met at the downtown Portland YMCA in the early 1940s when we were together in gym and swim classes (Y-style, barebutt naked, of course).

• 1993 — Robert Rose & Buck Tilton, Sex in the Outdoors: A Humorous Approach to Recreation, Globe Pequot Press (1993), →ISBN, page 37:

  Don't gather firewood in the dark, and don't wander outside barefoot and/or barebutt.

• 1997 — Allan Gurganus, Plays Well with Others, Vintage (1999), →ISBN, page 223:

  I recalled my father's face, how huge and raw it looked when he'd nearly finished whipping me, when first guilt set in for the jolt my little barebutt dance had given him.

• 1998 — Robert Coover, Ghost Town, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 120:

  What, yu mean that ornery no-account barebutt picaroon?