Callipygous

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /kalɪˈpɪdÊ’É™s/, /kalɪˈpʌɪɡəs/
• US IPA: /ËŒkæl.ɪˈpɪ.dÊ’É™s/, /kæləˈpaɪɡəs/

Origin

From Ancient Greek κάλλος (kallos, "beauty") + πυγή (pugē, "buttocks") + English -ous

Full definition of callipygous

Adjective

1. Having shapely, beautiful buttocks.
• 1928, Aldous Huxley, , Chapter VII, page 88: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, Joseph Heller, :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, , Bantam Books, ISBN 0553229796, page 105:The other hand came up and together they described a near callipygous shape.

Synonyms

• (having beautiful buttocks) bootylicious, bumtastic, callipygian, rumpalicious