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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”) + -ous.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kalɪˈpɪdʒəs/, /kalɪˈpʌɪɡəs/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌkæl.ɪˈpɪ.d͡ʒəs/, /kæləˈpaɪɡəs/
Adjective
callipygous (comparative more callipygous, superlative most callipygous)
- Synonym of callipygian
1928, Aldous Huxley, chapter VII, in Point Counter Point, London: Chatto & Windus, page 122:One does not fall very desperately in love with a loud speaker, however pretty, however firmly plump (for Philip's tastes were rather old-fashioned), however attractively callipygous.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC:He enjoyed Nurse Sue Ann Duckett’s long white legs and supple, callipygous ass; he often neglected to remember that she was quite slim and fragile from the waist up and hurt her unintentionally in moments of passion when he hugged her too roughly.
1976, Samuel R. Delany, Triton, Bantam Books,, →ISBN, page 105:The other hand came up and together they described a near callipygous shape.
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