Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or having buttocks that are considered beautifully proportioned.
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- adjective Having
beautifully shaped buttocks .
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- adjective pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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I love you forever for not only knowing the word callipygian, but using it correctly in a sentance. *applause*
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Also, to use the word callipygian in my Sex Alliances Against Society
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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).
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Almost three centuries before Beyoncé boasted herself "bootylicious", one with an ample behind might have best been described as "callipygian".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He also would have admired Swihart's recent paintings: callipygian female nudes, with no traces of visible brushwork.
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Clearly it is a picture of a callipygian women bending over.
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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.
tankexmortis commented on the word callipygian
Can't go wrong with words about butts.
January 17, 2007
sashamd commented on the word callipygian
I like big words and I cannot lie!
January 22, 2007
tankexmortis commented on the word callipygian
All you other linguists can't deny.
February 1, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word callipygian
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February 2, 2007
amberella commented on the word callipygian
Word of the day
February 13, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word callipygian
god is it painful, though.
February 13, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word callipygian
What a great word. So useful too!
June 27, 2007
uselessness commented on the word callipygian
Especially when describing me.
June 27, 2007
chesler commented on the word callipygian
What can beat a word that is both dirty and high-brow at the same time?
March 2, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word callipygian
more usually callipygean, sometimes callipygous.
= beautifully buttocked
July 20, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word callipygian
"I wouldn't fuck her with my own ass." - Tourette's Guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IcZbluiA1s
July 31, 2008
deejaynoemcee commented on the word callipygian
Is Aphrodite Kallipygia the eponyme, then?
August 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word callipygian
See also cacopygian.
August 7, 2008
tbtabby commented on the word callipygian
What other words can I use to compliment a woman on her figure without being slapped?
September 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word callipygian
Why not compliment her on her personality?
September 7, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word callipygian
Hmm... You could say she's attractive, beautiful, healthy, glowing... I'm guessing these aren't the words you had in mind, though. ;)
September 7, 2008
walkonbeauty commented on the word callipygian
best word ever
February 11, 2009
surreal commented on the word callipygian
oh my gosh I love it!
February 12, 2009
thesaurosie commented on the word callipygian
"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?'
August 5, 2009
lexylou commented on the word callipygian
oh. my. god. becky! look at her word for fine butt. it is so big!
August 6, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word callipygian
I mean, it's gross! Just look at it, it's so... round!
August 6, 2009
sionnach commented on the word callipygian
Quentin the quakebuttocked quail says: "better to be callipygian than pigeonpygian".
August 6, 2009
reesetee commented on the word callipygian
Or worse, hemipygian.
August 6, 2009
jorge999 commented on the word callipygian
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
November 7, 2009
qms commented on the word callipygian
It matters not a man’s religion –
Joy-illumined or grimly stygian.
A well-turned rump
Is piety’s trump.
Temptation’s shape is callipygian.
July 2, 2014
Gammerstang commented on the word callipygian
(adjective) - Of, pertaining to, or having well-shaped or finely developed buttocks. The name of a famous statue of Venus. From Greek kallos, beauty, and pyg, buttocks.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1893
January 16, 2018