Noun: nates
Sample Sentences
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Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue. [1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:]
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He sat cross-legged on a damask pillow and scrutinized the pale puckered nates with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise. [1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 3:]
Nouns inflected like nates
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin natēs, plural of natis.
Verbs referencing "nates"
Spanish Nouns
nalga.