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barse¹

  • /bɑːs/ UK
  • /bɑɹs/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)s

Where it comes from

From Middle English bars, from Old English bærs (“a fish, perch”), from Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”). Cognate with Dutch baars (“perch, bass”), German Barsch (“perch”). More at bass (“fish”).

noun barses

  1. The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch.

barse²

  • /bɑːs/ UK
  • /bɑɹs/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)s

Where it comes from

Blend of balls + arse.

noun barses

  1. UK, slang, vulgar The perineum of a man. So the prospects for this were pretty bad, and truly the most exciting thing I got out of watching this was feeling a pool of cold sweat collect in the hairy part of my barse, so livid was I with the treatment of Hooper's original classic.

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noun fish

Españolróbalo, lubina, perca
Françaisloup
DeutschBarsch
Ελληνικάπέρκα pérka
Русскийо́кунь ókunʹ

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@misc{barse_2026,
  title = {barse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/barse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}