-pygous and pygo-

[Joe Allonby]

Keeping the world safe for pygocracy.

On 10/14/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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