keyster) keester, (also keister

keister (also keester, keyster)

Word of the Day for Toastmasters everywhere Friday 16th April 2021 - Contributed by at easy-Speak.org Word of the Day - for Toastmasters everywhere Friday 16th April 2021 keister (also keester, keyster) (noun) KEE-sta

Buttocks.

In a showstopper of foreshadowing, Stahl has William Arbuckle lambaste his portly offspring: “You broke Mama’s little flower squeezing your sideshow keister out of her.―

Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 5 July 2004, The New Yorker reviewing Jerry Stahl's I, Fatty

So stop smoking, wear sunblock, chill out, go on a diet, get up off your keister, stay sober and find better parents.

S. Fair, The New York Times, 26 August 2007. New York Times

Then there's the homeowner who wants to put something else where the stonewall is, like a pool or a barn, and the stonewall is just a pain in the keister for them.

Elizabeth Maker, The New York Times, 26 March 2006. New York Times

An angry President Ronald Reagan once snapped, ''I've had it up to my keister with these leaks.''

Richard Berke, The New York Times, 16 December 2001. New York Times

''He came out of a drugstore and knocked my mother off her keister, so we always say he really swept her off her feet."

Elizabeth Raftery, The Boston Globe, 23 March 2006. Boston Globe

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