Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having beautifully proportioned buttocks.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having beautifully shaped buttocks.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek καλλίπυγος (kallipugos), from καλλι- (kalli-, "beautiful") + πυγή (pugē, "buttocks"). (Wiktionary)
- From Greek kallipugos : kalli-, beautiful (from kallos, beauty) + pugē, buttocks. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I love you forever for not only knowing the word callipygian, but using it correctly in a sentance. *applause*”
“Also, to use the word callipygian in my Sex Alliances Against Society”
“I admit my soft spot for callipygian is mostly because I learned it, via temvald, from the Fucking Little Hobbit (a philosphy prof at the 'Ford, not someone's Billy Boyd fantasy).”
“Almost three centuries before Beyoncé boasted herself "bootylicious", one with an ample behind might have best been described as "callipygian".”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“He rather belabors the point on those occasions when Tom experiences empathy for others an emotion which he describes as feeling sorry for himself while pretending to be someone else, and really, Portman is being more than a little disingenuous when a kid whose vocabulary includes the word 'callipygian' can't put a name to empathy when he experiences it.”
“Demant's utterly unique paintings are characterized by glamorous callipygian nudes, captive avian flocks, bloody images of sexual dominance, and the emotionally fraught — yet whimsical — lighting and landscapes associated with fairy tales.”
“He also would have admired Swihart's recent paintings: callipygian female nudes, with no traces of visible brushwork.”
The Huffington Post: John Seed: Jon Swihart: Jean-Leon Gerome Is His Master
“Clearly it is a picture of a callipygian women bending over.”
“The Brooklyn-based magazine is hardly alone in its appreciation of callipygian cover models: Rolling Stone gave the world Jennifer Aniston's rump in March 1996 (not to mention Jim Carrey's pasty posterior a year before) and men's magazines like Smooth seem to exist solely to allow photographers to dream up new angles for capturing the curvature of models 'gluteus maximi.”
“As much as the news may break the hearts of thousands of Democratic men, Obamagirl, in reality, is not the pulchritudinous callipygian who riffs on policy with Akon-esque beats, singing "you're into border security/let's break this border between you and me/universal health care reform/it makes me warm.”
Karen Russell: "I Got A Crush...On Obama!" How Should Campaigns Respond To Voter Generated Content?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘callipygian’.
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Very Silly Words
A list of very silly sounding words, as well as words that are fun to say
badot, gardyloo, dingbat, gaffer, kine, haberdashery, forsooth, whey-faced, hoddypeak, brouhaha, widdershins, decemnovenarianize and 115 more...
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buttocks
words for buttocks and anything
to do with buttockshiney, heiney, nates, hindquarters, bum, backside, behind, bottom, breech, bunny, butt, can and 160 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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March 2012
panache, evanescent, erogenous, vestibule, malfeasance, lacuna, blithering, incubate, breech, tabernacle, pearly, upholstery and 79 more...
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Sound Sex
taciturn, deflower, recursive, parapraxis, comitative, atelic, awkward, eccentric, libidinous, astereognosis, aloof, moonglade and 50 more...
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Dan’s Reading List
Memo to myself: Read these definitions and comments.
Memo to everyone else: Thanks for adding, by the way—I do very much appreciate it. I try to move things from here to my bookmark...moist, yarb, theodolite, fufluns, plummet, crepuscular, twist, pique, umbrage, the united states..., smeath, new interface and 9 more...
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The Fantastic Chiliastic
chiliastic, hapax legomenon, anosognosia, jactitation, infundibular, twee, callipygian, tintinnabulation, prestidigitation, anhedonia, coprolalia, parapraxis and 15 more...
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The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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gonk, nerking, guap, gimp, fabulous, dabble, fabilicious, tragic, zooted, hey, cheekini, nugget and 457 more... -
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ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 259 more...
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I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
anacoluthon, defenestration, hypnopomp, hypnagogue, idioglossia, panopticon, tatterdemalion, abalone, caltrop, miasma, paroxysm, smalt and 476 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
QI words
tongue-pad, jigger, haptodysphoria, vomitorium, tmesis, philtrum, callipygian, zopissa, borborygmus
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word tank
a couple words
logolepsy, nefarious, quintessential, tintinnabulation, serendipity, rhapsody, palimpsest, panoply, mellifluous, imbue, loquacious, garrulous and 174 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 332 more...
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Niels's Words
bien-pensant, pro re nata, zeitgeist, naïve, quod erat demonst..., dramastic, mélange, amanuensis, heuristic, hermeneutic, gist, gumption and 157 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for callipygian.
jorge999 I posted my little poem with interstice, but it belongs here too I think:
We were gazing all along
her imbedded yellow thong,
until sweet Lily cursed us
--for adoring her interstice Nov 7, 2009
reesetee Or worse, hemipygian. Aug 6, 2009
sionnach Quentin the quakebuttocked quail says: "better to be callipygian than pigeonpygian". Aug 6, 2009
chained_bear I mean, it's gross! Just look at it, it's so... round! Aug 5, 2009
lexylou oh. my. god. becky! look at her word for fine butt. it is so big! Aug 5, 2009
thesaurosie "The human bottom is made up of the gluteal muscles (the gluteus maximus and medius) upholstered by a layer of fat; a layer, alas, more significant in some than others.
It is a practical device which offers us primates a natural cushion on which to sit upright.
And just as female baboons sport enflamed scarlet backsides to ensnare their mates, so the human female's buttocks are likely to be wider and thicker than her paramour's, the better to beguile him.
Two centuries before the term 'bootylicious' entered the modern mainstream, 18th-century English had 'callipygian'.
The term was derived from the statue of the Venus Kallipygos, in which a partially draped woman raises her robes, glancing behind her to assess the perfection of her rear.
This type of Hellenistic sculpture was believed to be inspired by the myth of two Syracusian sisters, farmer's daughters, whose impeccably shapely hindquarters won them wealthy husbands."
- Betts, Hannah; 'As Kate Winslet goes naked on the big screen, Femail launches the great derriere debate: What DOES make the perfect female bottom?' Aug 5, 2009
surreal oh my gosh I love it! Feb 12, 2009
walkonbeauty best word ever Feb 11, 2009
chained_bear Hmm... You could say she's attractive, beautiful, healthy, glowing... I'm guessing these aren't the words you had in mind, though. ;) Sep 7, 2008
bilby Why not compliment her on her personality? Sep 7, 2008
tbtabby What other words can I use to compliment a woman on her figure without being slapped? Sep 7, 2008
tankexmortis See also cacopygian. Aug 7, 2008
deejaynoemcee Is Aphrodite Kallipygia the eponyme, then? Aug 7, 2008
sakhalinskii "I wouldn't fuck her with my own ass." - Tourette's Guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IcZbluiA1s Jul 31, 2008
johnmperry more usually callipygean, sometimes callipygous.
= beautifully buttocked Jul 20, 2008
chesler What can beat a word that is both dirty and high-brow at the same time? Mar 1, 2008
uselessness Especially when describing me. Jun 27, 2007
sonofgroucho What a great word. So useful too! Jun 27, 2007
abraxaszugzwang god is it painful, though. Feb 13, 2007
amberella Word of the day Feb 13, 2007
abraxaszugzwang http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=101 Feb 2, 2007
tankexmortis All you other linguists can't deny. Jan 31, 2007
sashamd I like big words and I cannot lie! Jan 22, 2007
tankexmortis Can't go wrong with words about butts. Jan 17, 2007