callipygous
Apparence
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]- Emprunté au grec ancien καλλίπυγος, kallípugos (« qui a de belles fesses »), issu de καλός kalós (« bon, beau ») et de πυγή pugế (« fesse »).
Adjectif
[modifier le wikicode]Nature | Forme |
---|---|
Positif | callipygous |
Comparatif | more callipygous |
Superlatif | most callipygous |
callipygous
- Callipyge.
One does not fall very desperately in love with a loud speaker, however pretty, however firmly plump (for Philip’s tastes were rather old-fashioned), however attractively callipygous.
— (Aldous Huxley Point Counter Point, Chapter VII, page 88, 1928)He enjoyed Nurse Sue Ann Duckett’s long white legs and supple, callipygous ass; he often neglected to remember that she was quite slim and fragile from the waist up and hurt her unintentionally in moments of passion when he hugged her too roughly.
— (Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961.)The other hand came up and together they described a near callipygous shape.
— (Samuel R. Delany, Triton, Bantam Books, page 105. 1976)
Synonymes
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[modifier le wikicode]Prononciation
[modifier le wikicode]- États-Unis : écouter « callipygous [ˌkæl.ɪˈpɪ.dʒəs] »