callipygian

English

Venus Callipige statue.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καλλίπυγος (kallípugos) + -ian, from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkæ.ləˈpɪ.dʒi.ən/
• IPA^(key): /ˌkælɪˈpɪdʒi.ən/, /ˌkæliˈpɪdʒjən/, /ˌkæləˈpɪdʒi.ən/, /ˌkæləˈpɪdʒjən/

Adjective

callipygian (comparative more callipygian, superlative most callipygian)

1. Having beautifully shaped buttocks.
   • 1918, Frances Douglas (translator), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Sónnica, Duffield & Company, page 131:

     Suddenly the music grew fainter, as if drawing away, and the dancers, their feet together and limbs half opened, descended in a slow spiral, with gentle undulations, until they touched the floor; the instant their callipygian charms grazed the mosaic, they recoiled like suddenly awakened serpents, [...]

   • 2006, Geoffrey Brock (translator), Umberto Eco (author), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 246:

     Her gown (perhaps as a result of the scorching winds coming off the ambas) clung damply to her body, clearly revealing her callipygian curves and the entire shapely length of her legs.

   • 2007, Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics, from the comic strip on May 22:

     [T-Rex:] My lovely visage, callipygian frame, startlingly awesome calves and charming smile will yet go down in history!

   • 2008, Conrad Black, "A nation seeking a hero," National Post (Canada), 12 January:

     With trepidation, but not embarrassment, I offer the thought that Mrs. Obama, a formerly disadvantaged alumna of Princeton and Harvard, to judge from her well-strategized appearances on national television in exiguous dresses and trousers, is as callipygian as Jennifer Lopez.

Synonyms

• (having beautiful buttocks): bootylicious, bumtastic, callipygous, rumpalicious

Related terms

• steatopygia
• steatopygous

Translations

having beautiful buttocks

• Esperanto: belpuga (eo)
• French: callipyge (fr)
• German: kallipygisch
• Greek: καλλίπυγος (el) m or f (kallípygos)

  Ancient: καλλίπυγος (kallípugos)

• Italian: callipige
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• Polish: o kształtnych pośladkach
• Portuguese: calipígio (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: лепогуза f
• Spanish: calipigio
• Volapük: jönaglüetik, (comparative) jönaglüetikum, (superlative) jönaglüetikün

See also

• natiform