Pygian
//ˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən// adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to or resembling buttocks. rare
"[...] and the terrible conviction forced itself upon my mind, that progress for me in this path there was none, until my executioner should have turned my pygian epidermis into a road-map, and have engraved all my stopping places indelibly ..."
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More examples"[...] and the terrible conviction forced itself upon my mind, that progress for me in this path there was none, until my executioner should have turned my pygian epidermis into a road-map, and have engraved all my stopping places indelibly ..."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”) + -ian, or extracted from callipygian and similar terms.
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