-pygous and pygo-

[Ya Sam]

I came across this funny sentence in Lempriere's Dictionary

'Hands are discreetly removed from bodices, temptingly steatopygous 
posterious are no longer being slapped, the sexes are parting like the Red 
Sea and fond farewells, blown kisses and entreaties to be true fill the 
melodramatic air like limp translations of a libretto by Calzabigi.' (p. 
118)

The strange word 'steatopygous' (which, as it turned out, means 'fat-arse') 
reminded me at once of Pynchon's famous callipygian ('those dusky 
Afro-Scandinavian buttocks.." etc.). Then I found this funny site.

Just some pearls:

"chromopygous - having painted buttocks
triplopygous - having three buttocks
nebulopygous - having vaguely defined buttocks
megalomanipygous - having delusions of grand buttocks
rhinopygous - having a nose between your buttocks
oratopygous - speaking through one's buttocks "

"pygocracy - government by buttocks
pygography - the art of writing on buttocks
pygecephalic - having a head shaped like buttocks
pygophany - a manifestation of buttocks"


http://www.coffeebeer.co.uk/doubleshot/labatelle_steatopygia.html

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