callipygous
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”) + -ous.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /kalɪˈpɪdʒəs/, /kalɪˈpʌɪɡəs/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌkæl.ɪˈpɪ.d͡ʒəs/, /kæləˈpaɪɡəs/
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Adjective
[edit]callipygous (comparative more callipygous, superlative most callipygous)
- Synonym of callipygian
- 1928, Aldous Huxley, chapter VII, in Point Counter Point[1], London: Chatto & Windus, page 122:
- 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 November 10, Joseph Heller, Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]callipygian — see callipygian