-pygous and pygo-

[pynchonoid]

If only, but we've got the asshole not the cheeks.


--- Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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