əˈpɪdʒ adjective
having well-shaped buttocks.
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callipygian or callipygous (ˌkælɪˈpɪdʒɪən, ˌkælɪˈpaɪɡəs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| having beautifully shaped buttocks | |
| [C19: from Greek kallipugos, epithet of a statue of Aphrodite, from | |
| callipygous or callipygous | |
| —adj | |
| [C19: from Greek kallipugos, epithet of a statue of Aphrodite, from | |
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Callipygian
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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callipygian
"of, pertaining to, or having beautiful buttocks," 1800, from Gk. kallipygos, name of a statue of Aphrodite at Syracuse, from kalli-, combining form of kallos "beauty" + pyge "rump, buttocks." Sir Thomas Browne (1646) refers to "Callipygæ and women largely composed behinde."
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