Callipygian
/ˌkæ.ləˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/ adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Having beautifully shaped buttocks.
"[…]we soon once more were in a state to renew our delicious combat; and a second course was run in the delightful callipygian recesses of Venus’s second temple of lubricity."
- 2 Specifically, describing a statue (often of a goddess such as Aphrodite) in a pose that shows off the figure's shapely buttocks.
Adjective
- 1 pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks wordnet
Example
More examples"[…]we soon once more were in a state to renew our delicious combat; and a second course was run in the delightful callipygian recesses of Venus’s second temple of lubricity."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek καλλίπυγος (kallípugos) + -ian, from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”).