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Borrowed from French derrière.

derrière (plural derrières)

  1. (chiefly humorous) Bottom, bum, backside.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks

    • 2011 July 30, “Baby you can drive my genes”, in The Economist‎[1]:

      As for high-heels, they hoist the derrière and make the gait more feminine and physically attractive.

bottom, bum, backside

Inherited from Old French deriere, from Late Latin dē retrō, from Latin dē + retrō.[1] Cognate with Italian dietro.

derrière

  1. behind
    Synonym: après
    Coordinate term: devant
    Va derrière moi. ― Go behind me.
  2. at the bottom of, behind (covertly responsible for)
    Je me demande qui est derrière tout ça. ― I wonder who is at the bottom of all this.

derrière

  1. behind
    Synonyms: à l’arrière, en arrière
    Coordinate term: devant
    Il était loin derrière. ― He was far behind.

derrière m (plural derrières)

  1. rear of an object
  2. bottom, bum, backside
  1. ^ Picoche, Jacqueline with Jean-Claude Rolland (2009) Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert