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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.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sit-upon1

First recorded in 1835–45; noun use of verb phrase sit upon
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Other kayaks are a �sit-upon� type, like a surfboard with a molded seat.

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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