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callipygian |
(adj): pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks
(adj): vs. unshapely) -- (having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape
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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
Or worse, hemipygian.
Quentin the quakebuttocked quail says: "better to be callipygian than pigeonpygian".
I mean, it's gross! Just look at it, it's so... round!
oh. my. god. becky! look at her word for fine butt. it is so big!
"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?'
oh my gosh I love it!
best word ever
Hmm... You could say she's attractive, beautiful, healthy, glowing... I'm guessing these aren't the words you had in mind, though. ;)
Why not compliment her on her personality?
What other words can I use to compliment a woman on her figure without being slapped?
See also cacopygian.
Is Aphrodite Kallipygia the eponyme, then?
"I wouldn't fuck her with my own ass." - Tourette's Guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IcZbluiA1s
more usually callipygean, sometimes callipygous.
= beautifully buttocked
What can beat a word that is both dirty and high-brow at the same time?
Especially when describing me.
What a great word. So useful too!
god is it painful, though.
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All you other linguists can't deny.
I like big words and I cannot lie!
Can't go wrong with words about butts.