# Familial slang for the gluteus maximus **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743 "2005-08-19T14:35:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/1 "2005-08-19T14:35:26Z")
The things you find yourself randomly thinking about… My mom has always refered to the posterior region as a “buppie”, and it is just one of those things that I have heard and accepted my whole life and not given much thought to. Now that I’m thinking about it, I am not aware of ever hearing anyone else use that term, so I’m wondering if anyone else uses it that way, or has heard it used that way. Of course I’m also interested in the origin, if anyone happens to know that. Personally, I’ve always used the more common “butt” and “ass”, except sometimesnwhen refering to pets, when I’ll throw in an occasional “buppie”. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/2 "2005-08-19T14:37:21Z")
Keister. Caboose. Sitter-Downer _or_ Sit-Upon-er. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/3 "2005-08-19T14:41:49Z")
Duff or Duffer. Or in an expression, as in: “Yo baby, back that thaaang up!” - and - “Drop it like it’s hot!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/4 "2005-08-19T15:32:27Z")
A foreign student at my sister’s college noted that “You have so many words for that!” Is this purely an American thing? In our family we used “heinie” exclusively, but there are plenty of others that people used, besides those listed above. It took me years to realize that “booty” meant “rear end” to some people. Never heard “Buppie” before, tyhough. Is it maybe derived from “bippy” (Rowan and Martin’s “You bet your Bippy”)? ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/5 "2005-08-19T15:50:43Z")
My son has somehow come up with the term “back private”. He likes to sing that Sir-Mix-A-Lot song with slight change. “I got a big back private and I can not lie.” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/6 "2005-08-19T15:54:01Z")
That’d be the butt, Bob. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/7 "2005-08-19T15:58:17Z")
pooper ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/8 "2005-08-19T16:26:25Z")
Bucket, as in, “Look! Eeyore fell on his bucket!” Something I yelled at the movie theater when the Winnie The Pooh movie came out. In the mid-60s. And which my aunt takes delight in telling me about whenever I see her. Forty years this has been going on, folks. And if you pass gas, it was called a “noisy bucket.” ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/9 "2005-08-19T16:43:43Z")
Ass, butt, behind, bottom, fanny, heinie, all familiar. Sometime’s you’d hear the euphemistic one’s like ‘he needs his britches busted’ too. One I never understood was dupa, pronounced DEW-pah. Mom used it all the time though. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/10 "2005-08-19T16:58:20Z")
> [@Queen Tonya](#): > > One I never understood was dupa, pronounced DEW-pah. Mom used it all the time though. _Dupa_ is just the Polish word for the thing we’re talking about. Half my family’s Polish, and I’ve heard it quite a bit. However, my non-Polish mother set the family standard with _boonie_, which I’ve never heard anyone anywhere else use in this sense. When people talk about going to _the boonies_, it conjures an image in my head that I’m sure is peculiar to me alone. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/11 "2005-08-19T16:58:39Z")
> [@](#): > > One I never understood was dupa, pronounced DEW-pah. Mom used it all the time though. That’s the standard Polish word for Rear End. Used in my (Polish) family all the time. Also used as the name of the Count in the film **a Polish Vampire in Burbank**. Polish vam,pires get no respect. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/12 "2005-08-19T16:59:25Z")
I’m not sure how it’s spelled, but we use the Chinese " pee-goo." ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/13 "2005-08-19T17:01:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > That’s the standard Polish word for Rear End. Used in my (Polish) family all the time. > > Also used as the name of the Count in the film **a Polish Vampire in Burbank**. Polish vam,pires get no respect. Boże moj, **Cal**! A simulpost! And yeah, that’s my absolute favorite vampire movie ever! ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/14 "2005-08-19T17:10:47Z")
The first time an American complemented my ass using “heinie”, I misunderstood and gave him a sip of my beer. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/15 "2005-08-19T17:15:37Z")
Reminds me. My friend’s fairly elderly American mother once said after a long car trip that she had “fanny fatigue”. I commented I hadn’t had _that_ in a while. We then warned her about Irish usage of the term “fanny”.\* \*For those who might not know, it means be a woman’s “front privates” to stick with this kind of terminology. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/16 "2005-08-19T17:45:11Z")
I know that “dupe” is Serbo-Croatian for butt. Pronounced “dew-peh”. And I know Serbo-Croatian has declinations (which I don’t understand even in the slightest, admittedly), so it is perhaps possible that “dupa” is related? … On preview, WOW, I missed a lot of posts. So it’s Polish, hm? Eeeeenteresteenk. _taps fingers together_ Aside from the standard words, I call it a bummy. I don’t know why. Example: “My bummy hurts.” ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/17 "2005-08-19T20:13:02Z")
[minor deviance] Hey - I’ve got a cow-orker who uses “dupa” all the time. I knew she was Polish, so I assumed it was Polish for something less than positive. Now I know!! She also spouts off something that sounds like “dup-eye-osh” - is that the polish word for the orifice associated with the dupa? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/18 "2005-08-19T20:17:59Z")
Hinder ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/19 "2005-08-19T20:19:23Z")
My mum always said “bum” when we were growing up; an aunt of mine always said “tush”, which I HATE. I like “dupa”, perhaps I’ll starting using it. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743/20 "2005-08-19T20:27:33Z")
buppie = buh-pee, forgot to mention that… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familial-slang-for-the-gluteus-maximus/317743.md?page=2)