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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Buttok(e, -ock, n. [ME. buttok (a 1300).] A buttock; pl. the rump. c1420 Wynt. i. 450.
Bak and buttoke [W. butowis] bath wes bare 1540 Lynd. Sat. 1347.
Cum thow this gate againe, Thy buttoks salbe beltit Ib. 4367 (B).
Hir verry buttokkis makis sic beir, It skarris baith foill and filly 15.. Wyf of Aucht. 60.
By thair cumis ane ill-willy cow And brodit his buttok 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 64.
Thai began to bait the fyre, sometimes to his buttokes, sometimes to his leiges a1570-86 Maitl. F. clxxviii. 125.
Thair buttokis bostered wp behind 1600-1610 Melvill 259.
His [the horse's] buttokes lightes hard besyd me, with all his four feit to the lift 16.. Hist. Kennedy 48.
Strukin in at the knie with ane lanse and out at the buttok

b. Buttok maill, a fine for immorality. 1540 Lynd. Sat. 3353.
I gat gude payment of my temporall lands, My buttock maill, my coattis, and my offrands 1554 Duncan Laideus Test. 167.
I leif vnto the Deyne … Fra adulteraris [to] tak the buttok maill