Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Like or likened to buttocks, as the umbones of a shell: as, the natiform tubercles of the brain.
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling or having the form of buttocks.
Etymologies
- First attested in 1681; formed as the Latin natis (“rump”, “buttocks”; from whose plural derives the English nates, “buttocks”, “haunches”) + the English -i- + -form. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I may stroke my natiform chin sceptically at Shea's cachinnations, but if such things truly make him tripudiate”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘natiform’.
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phrontistery - n
from phrontistery.info
nacarat, nacelle, nacket, nacre, nacreous, naevus, naiant, nail, nainsook, naissant, nanism, nanization and 340 more...
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Weird Body Words
A list of strange words that describe your body in ways you never knew
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Fall Words 2009
sgraffito, maestá, tempera, size, gesso, obsolescence, hinterland, taboret, pram, amygdalate, pandect, loggia and 105 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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jimbo's list
my favourite words - real ones
absquatulate, natiform, badinaje, persifleur, tripudiate, agitprop, gormandize, quidnunc, triskelion, anathema, indurate, vicissitude and 18 more...
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Humblegod's Words
sanguinary, stichomythia, insipid, pulchritudinous, vex, pleonasm, memetics, tlön, milieu, reify, cynosure, parvenu and 35 more...
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BBC Listeners Nominate Their Favourit...
Lots of sesquipedalians out there, judging by the response to our feature on the man who reads dictionaries for fun, Ammon Shea. We asked for your favourite words and were overwhelmed with nominati...
defenestrate, poodle-faker, omphaloskepsis, mallemaroking, spanghew, scrimshanker, zareba, tmesis, quidnunc, ischial callosities, cryptomnesia, urt and 47 more...
Tweets
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mialuthien natiform – resembling the buttocks Jul 26, 2008