callipygous
English
WOTD – 14 February 2009
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”) + -ous.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kalɪˈpɪdʒəs/, /kalɪˈpʌɪɡəs/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌkæl.ɪˈpɪ.d͡ʒəs/, /kæləˈpaɪɡəs/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
callipygous (comparative more callipygous, superlative most callipygous)
- Having shapely, beautiful buttocks.
- 1928, Aldous Huxley, chapter VII, in Point Counter Point, page 88:
- One does not fall very desperately in love with a loud speaker, however pretty, however firmly plump (for Philip's tastes were rather old-fashioned), however attractively callipygous.
- 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22:
- He enjoyed Nurse Sue Ann Duckett’s long white legs and supple, callipygous ass; he often neglected to remember that she was quite slim and fragile from the waist up and hurt her unintentionally in moments of passion when he hugged her too roughly.
- 1976, Samuel R. Delany, Triton, Bantam Books,, →ISBN, page 105:
- The other hand came up and together they described a near callipygous shape.
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Synonyms
- (having beautiful buttocks): bootylicious, bumtastic, callipygian, rumpalicious
Translations
callipygian — see callipygian
See also
- natiform
- steatopygous