{"word":"callipygian","entries":[{"language":{"code":"en","name":"English"},"partOfSpeech":"adjective","pronunciations":[{"type":"ipa","text":"/ˌkæ.ləˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/","tags":["US"]},{"type":"ipa","text":"/ˌkælɪˈpɪdʒi.ən/","tags":["Canada"]},{"type":"ipa","text":"/ˌkæliˈpɪdʒjən/","tags":["Canada"]},{"type":"ipa","text":"/ˌkæləˈpɪdʒi.ən/","tags":["Canada"]},{"type":"ipa","text":"/ˌkæləˈpɪdʒjən/","tags":["Canada"]}],"forms":[{"word":"more callipygian","tags":["comparative"]},{"word":"most callipygian","tags":["superlative"]},{"word":"kallipygian","tags":["alternative"]}],"senses":[{"definition":"Having beautifully shaped buttocks.","tags":[],"examples":["[T-Rex:] My lovely visage, callipygian frame, startlingly awesome calves and charming smile will yet go down in history!"],"quotes":[{"text":"[…]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.","reference":"1873, anonymous author, The Romance of Lust, volume 1:"},{"text":"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, […]","reference":"1918, Frances Douglas, transl., Sónnica, Duffield & Company, translation of original by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, page 131:"},{"text":"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.","reference":"2006, Geoffrey Brock, transl., The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, translation of original by Umberto Eco, →ISBN, page 246:"},{"text":"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.","reference":"2008 January 12, Conrad Black, “A nation seeking a hero”, in National Post, Canada:"}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"subsenses":[]},{"definition":"Specifically, describing a statue (often of a goddess such as Aphrodite) in a pose that shows off the figure's shapely buttocks.","tags":[],"examples":[],"quotes":[],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"subsenses":[]}],"synonyms":["bootylicious","bumtastic","callipygous","rumpalicious","thicc","asstastic","callipygian","gyatt","steatopygous"],"antonyms":[]}],"source":{"url":"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/callipygian","license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"}}}