fundament

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
19
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈfʌn.də.mənt/
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/ˈfʌn.də.mənt/ · /ˈfan.də.mənt/

Definition of fundament

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Foundation.
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noun

  1. Foundation.
  2. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
    “It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.”
    “ANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck […]”
    “Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament, beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.”
    “I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament.”
  3. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

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Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundāmentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the bottom, to found”). Doublet of fondamento.

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