Definitions

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  • adjective Having shapely, beautiful buttocks.

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  • adjective pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek κάλλος (kallos, "beauty") + πυγή (pugē, "buttocks") + English -ous

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Examples

  • Given that the reader cannot wade through five pages without an account of some miscreant grabbing her presumably callipygous posterior, one has wonder if appropriate clothing may have protected her rear flank.

    C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011

  • Given that the reader cannot wade through five pages without an account of some miscreant grabbing her presumably callipygous posterior, one has wonder if appropriate clothing may have protected her rear flank.

    C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011

  • Given that the reader cannot wade through five pages without an account of some miscreant grabbing her presumably callipygous posterior, one has wonder if appropriate clothing may have protected her rear flank.

    C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011

  • Given that the reader cannot wade through five pages without an account of some miscreant grabbing her presumably callipygous posterior, one has wonder if appropriate clothing may have protected her rear flank.

    C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011

  • The trends for 2010 include rapacious tail bags, callipygous spoke nipples, and cutthroat Presta valve inserts.

    Hands On: The Latest In Grips BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • They are not just meant to retroflex your knees, extend your legs, and make you callipygous.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • Hedonistic accommodation sunshine coast that as unreconciled questioner strongbox sulkily and neglectfully unmanful, our overhead with the grossulariaceae is callipygous.

    Rational Review 2009

  • Perhaps you caught some of the weekend’s silly fuss over a photo that apparently showed Barack Obama scoping out a callipygous Brazillian teen at a youth conference.

    Who Ogles the Oglers? 2009

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