callipygian
/ˌkalɪˈpɪdʒɪən
/(also callipygean)
adjective rare
Having well-shaped buttocks.The last thing I saw before I rolled the bike was the machine-gunner at Hyde Park Corner - a callipygian figure dominating the war memorial on the traffic island....
- As a gentleman and scholar, he must rush to the defense of the brilliant, principled, and callipygian Jill.
- The pictures appeared as the result of her discovery by a sharp-eyed prison surgeon in Brixton Jail, where the callipygian captain was temporarily detained a fortnight ago on a charge of bankruptcy.
Derivatives
callipygous
- However, it turns out he was simply callipygous.
Origin
Late 18th century: from Greek kallipūgos (used to describe a famous statue of Venus), from kallos 'beauty' + pūgē 'buttocks', + -ian.
Rhymes
- pageant cart
- pageanteer
- pageanter
- pageant-house
- pageantic
- pageanting
- pageant-like
- pageant-master
- pageant-pence
- pageant poet
- pageantry
- pageant-silver
- pageant stage
- pageant vehicle
- pageant wagon
- pageboy
- page break
- page charge
- page-cord
- paged
- page description language
- pagedom
- pageful
- page gage
- page galley