sit-upon

[sit-uh-pon, -pawn]

noun

1. a piece of waterproof fabric or other material carried by campers, hikers, etc., and used for sitting on wet surfaces.

2. Chiefly British Informal.,  the buttocks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sit-upon¹

First recorded in 1835–45; noun use of verb phrase sit upon

Example Sentences

Other kayaks are a �sit-upon� type, like a surfboard with a molded seat.

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Which was indeed true, he having been the first to teach us pisāli, meaning a saddle, and in which Professor Cowell, of Cambridge, promptly detected the Sanskrit for sit-upon, the same double meaning also existing in boshto; or, as old Mrs. Buckland said to me at Oaklands Park, in Philadelphia, “a pisāli is the same thing with a boshto.”

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He has a bob-tail coat and black kersey sit-upon-’ems, and a vesky with glass buttons, and all covered with embroidery.

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Nor I can't send you out to s'arch for your sister, wi' the knowledge that it'll surely end in her warmin' your little sit-upon.

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