-pygous and pygo-

[Joseph T]

O Ya Sam wrote:

> If you want to describe it in a very polite way, I guess.
>
>
>> From: Joseph T <brook7 at sover.net>
>> To: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: -pygous and pygo-
>> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:24:04 -0400
>>
>> 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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