open-arse

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open-arse

/ˈəʊpənɑːs/ UK

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From Middle English open-ers, from Old English openears, corresponding to open + arse, ‘with allusion to the large cavity at the end of the fruit between the persistent calyx lobes’ – OED3.

noun open-arses

UK, regional The medlar fruit. In several of our counties the same fruit is called an open arse; another of those unluckily belotted travesties of a very properly-expressed original phrase [...].

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@misc{open_arse_2026,
  title = {open-arse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/open-arse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}