hurdies

[hur-deez]

plural noun

Scot.

1. the buttocks.

hurdies

/ ˈhʌrdɪz /

plural noun

1. the buttocks or haunches

Word History and Origins

Origin of hurdies¹

First recorded in 1525–35; origin uncertain

Word History and Origins

Origin of hurdies¹

C16: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

Now Tam, O Tam! had they been queans A' plump and strapping in their teens: Their sarks, instead o' creeshie flannen, Been snaw-white seventeen-hunder linen; Thir breeks o' mine, my only pair, That ance were plush, o' guid blue hair, I wad hae gi'en them aff my hurdies, For ae blink o' the bonnie burdies!

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"Suppose I should tell ye now I canna read the heid o' one printed word frae the hurdies o' it?"

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The last we saw o' him, he was sitting on his hurdies in the shallows, up to his neck in the water, trying what banes war hale after his stramash.

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Should you sit down—we must beg to draw a veil over your hurdies, which at the moment extinguish a fearful amount of animal life—creation may be said to groan under them; and, insect as you are yourself, you are defrauding millions of insects of their little day.

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How the silly foal whinnied, as with light-gathered steps he accompanied in circles his populous parent, and seemed almost to doubt her identity, till one by one we slipped off over her hurdies, and let him take a suck!

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