steatopygous
/ˌstɪ.əˈtɑ.pɪ.ɡəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to steatopygia; having fat or prominent buttocks.
Example Sentences
- "[W]e may refer to some unknown condition of climate, the steatopygous deformities of the Bushmen. As these remarkable depositions of fat are not the peculiarity of one tribe, namely the Saabs, [...] we have no room for doubt that the cause of the phenomenon is some influence connected with climate and situation."
- "Living in rooms opposite these slave girls, and seeing them at all hours of the day and night, I had frequent opportunities of studying them. They were average specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed, broad-shouldered, thin-flanked, fine-limbed, and with haunches of prodigious size."
- "Perhaps, he now felt, if this body he held could become—just for twenty or thirty seconds—one of those harem dreams of his, pampered, pouting, perfumed, steatopygous, he could, he was sure, achieve what it was a plain duty, apart from all questions of gratification, to achieve."
- "At his side, Amuta and a steatopygous twelve-year-old in a striped shift."
- "And finally there is the old crone of death, the steatopygous figure with pointed feet, that goes all the way back to the Paleolithic settlement of Dolne Vestonice."
Etymology
From steatopyga, steatopygia + -ous. Steatopyga is borrowed from New Latin steatopyga, from Ancient Greek στέᾱτος (stéātos) (genitive singular of στέαρ (stéar, “hard fat, suet, tallow”)) + πῡγή (pūgḗ, “buttocks, rump”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *steh₂-, steatopyga, στέᾱτος
- Suffix: steatopygia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌstɪ.əˈtɑ.pɪ.ɡəs/
- British English: /ˌstɪ.əˈtɒ.pɪ.ɡəs/
Inflected Forms
more steatopygous (comparative)
most steatopygous (superlative)