Barse

//bɑːs// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch.
  2. 2
    The perineum of a man. UK, slang, vulgar

    "So the prospects for this were pretty bad, and truly the most exciting thing I got out of watching this was feeling a pool of cold sweat collect in the hairy part of my barse, so livid was I with the treatment of Hooper's original classic."

Example

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"So the prospects for this were pretty bad, and truly the most exciting thing I got out of watching this was feeling a pool of cold sweat collect in the hairy part of my barse, so livid was I with the treatment of Hooper's original classic."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English bars, from Old English bærs (“a fish, perch”), from Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”). Cognate with Dutch baars (“perch, bass”), German Barsch (“perch”). More at bass (“fish”).

Etymology 2

Blend of balls + arse.

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