callipygous
Anglais[modifier le wikicode]
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)
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Prononciation[modifier le wikicode]
- États-Unis : écouter « callipygous [ˌkæl.ɪˈpɪ.dʒəs] »