Fundament

Origin

Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundamentum ("foundation"), from fundō ("I lay the bottom, I found").

Full definition of fundament

Noun

1. Foundation.
2. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
• 1703, Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized:It Sphincter Ani serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.
• 1861, Aristotle (pseud.), Aristotle's Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies., page 119ANOTHER 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...
• 1864, Alfred Fennings, Fennings' everybody's doctor; or, When ill, how to get well, page 9Bathe 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.
• 2008, Eric Summers , Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West, page 38http://books.google.com/books?id=0BVYlikE-bgC&pg=PA38&dq=fundament: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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