Definitions
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek δασύς (dasus, "hairy, dense") + πυγή (pugē, "buttocks"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If John doesn't put this on the front page, there is something very wrong with this world. dasypygal-unwaxed”
“A few weeks ago I was out in the garage having a wank dasypygal-unwaxed”
“If you do it right she won't care how quick you are. dasypygal-unwaxed”
“` bell-ringer's knell, 'galliaceous halitosis ` garlic breath,' pernoctative nepotation ` riotous carousing through the night, 'bromidrotic fug ` sweaty stench,' and dasypygal demimondaine”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dasypygal’.
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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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Nonce
A nonce word is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. Quark, for example, was formerly a nonce word in English, appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wa...
kwyjibo, fnord, wug, blicket, dax, toma, pimwit, zav, speff, tulver, gazzer, fem and 22 more...
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Desultory Digressions
Also known as EsotericWench's Word Holding Tank. These are words that have caught my fancy but I have yet to file in the appropriate list. If I don't capture them here, I won't capture them at all.
desultory, abjure, immethodical, mentalist, subvertising, schmaltzy, fartlek, interstitial, ear-rent, brouhaha, crufty, malefactor and 34 more...
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List of Silly Words
A list of silly, strange, and generally unusual words.
decemnovenarianize, mammothrept, spaneria, spanogyny, lexiphanic, allorgasmia, marcous, leighster, psaphonic, exsibiliation, paralian, phobophobia and 24 more...
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Useful
parkour, diegetic, callipygian, dasypygal, hypnagogic, hypnopompic, antejentacular, postprandial, perspicuity, perspicacity, föhn, traceur and 115 more...
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Sound or sequence
dulcimer, borborygmi, ecchymosis, scrivener, fustilugs, zarf, bawdyhouse, googleable, archfiend, gymkhana, cuckoopint, pilpul and 104 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Depraved and Insulting English
Vocabulary from Peter Novobatzky's and Ammon Shea's highly entertaining book of words I wish I could use in conversation.
ablutophobic, aboiement, abydocomist, acalculiac, achilous, acokoinonia, acrocephalic, acrotophiliac, acrotomophiliac, ameliotist, apotemnophiliac, monopediomaniac and 349 more...
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Abecedarian Insult List
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apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebro, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ityphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose and 12 more...
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wordies
apple-howling, аппаратчик, perjinkities, katzenjammer, prorogue, henotheistic, wiggedy wack, twiss, concinnity, freeball, lywed, procrastokinetics and 76 more...
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M-W.com WotD 2003 Picks
punctilio, sitzmark, futurity, laodicean, anabasis, hector, plumply, argy-bargy, portmanteau, apodictic, hoary, indite and 38 more...
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words
acerbic, effete, anodyne, nadir, rodomontade, unctuous, contumacious, gasconade, deipnosophist, solecism, omphaloskepsis, palliate and 30 more...
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I've Been Cornobbled!
From Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader:
"You won't find these archaic words in most dictionaries, but take our word for it--they're real. And just for fun, try to use them in a ...hobberdehoy, faffle, dasypygal, cornobble, collieshangie, wem, calcographer, bodewash, twiddlepoop, liripoop, leptorrhinian, bridelope and 61 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dasypygal.

reesetee *snort* Jan 5, 2009
chained_bear As a bear, I feel no need to respond. If I waxed them, I'd resemble a baboon. Jan 5, 2009
reesetee Perhaps that question is better left unanswered.... Jan 5, 2009
epeolatrist i wonder how many wordies are dasypygal Dec 31, 2008
whichbe Having hairy buttocks. Jun 7, 2008