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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Examples
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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