This week's theme
Words to describe various bodily configurations

This week's words
callipygous
prognathous
mammose
platyrrhine
lissotrichous

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PRONUNCIATION:

(MAM-ohs)

MEANING:

adjective: Having large breasts.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin mammosus (having large breasts), from mamma (breast) + -osus (full of). Earliest documented use: 1857.

USAGE:

"Wanda Clouston, a mammose wench in third year, waddled to the door of a cubicle."
George Friel; Mr Alfred, MA; Calder and Boyars; 1972.

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