{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈbɑtəm" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/bottom.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/bottom.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/bottom.wav" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/bottom.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/bottom.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "PIE word*bʰudʰmḗn\nFrom Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Cognate with Dutch bodem, German Boden, Icelandic botn, Danish bund; also Irish bonn (“sole (of foot)”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”), Persian بن (bon, “bottom”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French). The sense “posterior of a person” is from 1794; the verb “to reach the bottom of” is from 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The lowest part of anything.\n1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:barrels with the bottoms knocked out\n#* 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 19, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:a great ship's kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out\n1886 October – 1887 January, H Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:At the bottom of the staircase I stood and stared at the worn steps, and Ayesha, turning, saw me.\n1824, Geoffrey Crayon , Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H C Carey & I Lea, , →OCLC:\nNo two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.\nFooters appear at the bottoms of pages.", "submean": [ "A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.\nCoordinate term: top\nThere's a hole in her pyjama bottoms.", "Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.\na soda and a bottom of brandy" ] }, { "mean": "The far end of somewhere.\nThere’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.\nI walked to the bottom of the street." }, { "mean": "(uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.\nlack bottom" }, { "mean": "(dated, uncountable) Power of endurance.\n2017, Les Savage, The Teton Bunch: A Western Trio\nThis was why Dee had always ridden a buckskin; a man following his kind of trails needed a horse with bottom, and a line-back like this one never wore out." }, { "mean": "The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.\n1886 October – 1887 January, H Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at the bottom - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond." }, { "mean": "(now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.\nWhere shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?\n1751, Smollett, chapter 71, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle , volume II, London: Harrison and Co., , published 1781, →OCLC:The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills.\n1812, Amos Stoddard, Sketches of Louisiana\nthe bottoms and the high grounds" }, { "mean": "(usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil." }, { "mean": "(euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.\n1986 April 10, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):Calvin, if you shoot that paper clip at me, I'll get your bottom hauled to the principal's office so fast you'll think you were in a time warp!!\nSynonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks" }, { "mean": "(often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.\n2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian‎:In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year, 40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year, according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%." }, { "mean": "The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea." }, { "mean": "An abyss.\n1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:In the Carpathian Bottom makes abode The Shepherd of the Seas, a Prophet and a God" }, { "mean": "(nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.\n1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:\nWe sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters;" }, { "mean": "(nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.\nc. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.\nNovember 8, 1773, Bancroft, in Boston Post-Boy\nNot to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped." }, { "mean": "(baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat." }, { "mean": "(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity." }, { "mean": "(gay slang) A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.\nJames and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.\nSynonym: catcher\nAntonym: top" }, { "mean": "(particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.\nHypernym: flavor" }, { "mean": "A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.\n1707, J Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. , 2nd edition, London: J H for H Mortlock , and J Robinson , published 1708, →OCLC:\nthe worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. \nto bottom a chair" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).\nDirge of the Drinker, in 1866, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art (page 645)\nWe shall bid that thoughtful waiter place beside him, near and handy, / Large supplies of soda water, tumblers bottomed well with brandy," }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.). \nc. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon. \n1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. , London: J Dodsley, , →OCLC:But an absurd opinion concerning the king's hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.\n1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, , published 1727, →OCLC:those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state\n2001, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, p.59:\nMoreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked." }, { "mean": "(transitive, chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. \n1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine:\nMy first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks." }, { "mean": "(obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded. \n'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman\nFind out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms." }, { "mean": "(mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To reach the bottom of something.\n1902, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 21:Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts to bottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close." }, { "mean": "To fall to the lowest point. \n2004, John J. Murphy, Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships, page 119:The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24." }, { "mean": "(BDSM, intransitive) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship." }, { "mean": "(gay slang, intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex. \nThe only time I ever bottomed in my life, my sphincter was pierced." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The lowest or last place or position.\nThose files should go on the bottom shelf." }, { "mean": "(transgender) Relating to the genitals.\nbottom dysphoria\nbottom surgery" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }