A.Word.A.Day

[Dave Monroe]

A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg

callipygian
PRONUNCIATION:
(kal-uh-PIJ-ee-uhn)

MEANING:
adjective: Having well-shaped buttocks.

ETYMOLOGY:
>From Greek calli- (beautiful) + pyge (buttocks).

USAGE:
"And it hasn't been lost on modern film directors that a nice set of
tights can showcase the callipygian assets of a well-formed leading
man."
Heroes in Hosiery; South China Morning Post (Hong Kong); Jul 20, 2006.

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"Those dusky Afro-Scandinavian buttocks, which combine the callipygian
rondure observed among the races of the Dark Continent with the taut
and noble musculature of sturdy Olaf, our blond Northern cousin."
--GR, Pt. I, p. 69