Buttocks - Related Terms

Related Terms

• The word "callipygian" is sometimes used to describe someone with notably attractive buttocks. The term comes from the Greek kallipygos, (first used for the Venus Kallipygos) which literally means "beautiful buttocks"; the prefix is also a root of "calligraphy" (beautiful writing) and "calliope" (beautiful voice); callimammapygian means having both beautiful breasts and buttocks.
• Both the English (in) tails and the Dutch billentikker ('tapping the buttocks') are ironic terms for very formal coats with a significantly longer tail end as part of festive (especially wedding party) dress
• Macropygia means 'heaving large buttocks, hindquarter', and occurs in biological species names,
• A pygopag(ous) (from the Greek pygè 'buttock' and pagein 'attached') was a monster in Ancient (Greek) mythology consisting of two bodies joint by common buttocks, now a medical term for 'Siamese' twins thus joint back-to-back
• Pygophilia is sexual arousal or excitement caused by seeing, playing with or touching the buttocks; people who have strong attraction to buttocks are called pygophilists.
• Pygoscopia means observing someone's rear; pygoscopophobia a pathological fear to be its unwilling object
• Pygalgia is soreness in the buttocks, i.e. a pain in the rump.
• Steatopygia is a marked accumulation of fat in and around the buttocks.
• Uropygial in ornithology means situated on or belonging to the uropygium, i.e. the rump of a bird.
• "Bubble butt" has at least two connotations, which are at odds with each other: either a small, round and firm pair of buttocks resembling a pair of soap bubbles next to each other, or a large rear end, seemingly about to burst from the strain. In both cases, the term implies an appealing shapeliness about the buttocks.