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with Anu Garg

callipygian

PRONUNCIATION:

(kal-uh-PIJ-ee-uhn)

MEANING:

adjective: Having well-shaped buttocks.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek calli- (beautiful) + pyge (buttocks). Two related words are dasypygal and steatopygia.

USAGE:

"And it hasn't been lost on modern film directors that a nice set of tights can showcase the callipygian assets of a well-formed leading man."
Heroes in Hosiery; South China Morning Post (Hong Kong); Jul 20, 2006.

See more usage examples of callipygian in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

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