barse
English
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /bɑːs/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /bɑːɹs/
Audio (AU): (file)
Etymology 1
From Middle English bars, from Old English bærs (“a fish, perch”), from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly fish”). Cognate with Dutch baars (“perch, bass”), German Barsch (“perch”).
Noun
barse (plural barses)
- The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch.
Related terms
Translations
fish
Etymology 2
Noun
barse (plural barses)
- (UK, vulgar, slang) The perineum of a man.
- 2000 March 13, death_hammer [username], “texas chainsaw 4”, in alt.horror[1] (Usenet):
- So the prospects for this were pretty bad, and truly the most exciting thing I got out of watching this was feeling a pool of cold sweat collect in the hairy part of my barse, so livid was I with the treatment of Hooper's original classic.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:barse.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:perineum.
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