-pygous and pygo-

[Joseph T]

On Oct 14, 2006, at 8:24 PM, Joseph T wrote:
oops, I first sent this to Ya Sam instead of list.
> So does that mean the Shrub, Rummy,  Chainy rule is a triplopygocracy?
> On Oct 14, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Ya Sam 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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