breech

Meaning

Noun

1. A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks.
2. The buttocks or backside.
3. The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
4. The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
5. A breech birth.

Adv

With the hips coming out before the head.

Adj

Born, or having been born, breech.

Verb

1. To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).
2. To beat or spank on the buttocks.
3. To fit or furnish with a breech.
4. To fasten with breeching.
5. (obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.

Synonyms

rear of tube

buttocks

rear of barrel

buttock

breechblock

rump

backside

bottom

posterior

postern

rear

shorts

🩳

smallclothes

stocking

trousers

unmentionables

reverse gear

breech block

breech-block

britch

arse

tushes

articles

britches

bum

culet

cylinder head

jodhpurs

pants

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹiːt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.