Dictionary

callipygian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌkæliˈpɪdʒjən/ (Canada)
• /ˌkæ.ləˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/ (US)
• /ˌkæləˈpɪdʒi.ən/ (Canada)
• /ˌkæləˈpɪdʒjən/ (Canada)
• /ˌkælɪˈpɪdʒi.ən/ (Canada)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καλλίπυγος (kallípugos) + -ian, from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”).

Meanings

1. Having beautifully shaped buttocks.
   • Her gown (perhaps as a result of the scorching winds coming off the ambas) clung damply to her body, clearly revealing her callipygian curves and the entire shapely length of her legs. 2006, Geoffrey Brock, transl., The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, translation of original by Umberto Eco, →ISBN, page 246:
   • [T-Rex:] My lovely visage, callipygian frame, startlingly awesome calves and charming smile will yet go down in history! 2007, Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics, from the comic strip on May 22
   • Suddenly the music grew fainter, as if drawing away, and the dancers, their feet together and limbs half opened, descended in a slow spiral, with gentle undulations, until they touched the floor; the instant their callipygian charms grazed the mosaic, they recoiled like suddenly awakened serpents, […] 1918, Frances Douglas, transl., Sónnica, Duffield & Company, translation of original by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, page 131:
   • […]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. 1873, anonymous author, The Romance of Lust, volume 1:
   • With trepidation, but not embarrassment, I offer the thought that Mrs. Obama, a formerly disadvantaged alumna of Princeton and Harvard, to judge from her well-strategized appearances on national television in exiguous dresses and trousers, is as callipygian as Jennifer Lopez. 2008 January 12, Conrad Black, “A nation seeking a hero”, in National Post, Canada:
2. Specifically, describing a statue (often of a goddess such as Aphrodite) in a pose that shows off the figure's shapely buttocks.

Forms

Hypernyms

voluptuous

Relateds

buttocks · busty · natiform · :Category:en:Buttocks · steatopygous · steatopygia

Synonyms

steatopygous · gyatt · bootylicious (having beautiful buttocks) · thicc (having beautiful buttocks) · asstastic · callipygian · callipygous (having beautiful buttocks) · rumpalicious (having beautiful buttocks) · bumtastic (having beautiful buttocks)

Translations (30)

vo jönaglüetik (having beautiful buttocks) · ru каллипиги́йский (having beautiful buttocks) · uk каліпігі́йська (having beautiful buttocks) · el καλλίπυγος (having beautiful buttocks) · pl o kształtnych pośladkach (having beautiful buttocks) · it callipige (having beautiful buttocks) · sa सुनितम्बिनी (having beautiful buttocks) · de kallipygisch (having beautiful buttocks) · la cūlōsus (having beautiful buttocks) · grc καλλίπυγος (having beautiful buttocks) · eo belpuga (having beautiful buttocks) · grc εὐρύπρωκτος (having beautiful buttocks) · fr callipyge (having beautiful buttocks) · sa नितम्बवत् (having beautiful buttocks) · sa सुभसद् (having beautiful buttocks) · vo jönaglüetikün (having beautiful buttocks) · pt bundudo (having beautiful buttocks) · pt rabudo (having beautiful buttocks) · ru каллипиги́йская (having beautiful buttocks) · fr fessu (having beautiful buttocks) · uk каліпігі́йський (having beautiful buttocks) · es calipigio (having beautiful buttocks) · pt popozudo (having beautiful buttocks) · sh лепогуза (having beautiful buttocks) · fi kaunispakarainen (having beautiful buttocks) · nl kallipygisch (having beautiful buttocks) · vo jönaglüetikum (having beautiful buttocks) · sa सुश्रोणि (having beautiful buttocks) · sa सुश्रोणी (having beautiful buttocks) · pt calipígio (having beautiful buttocks)