steatopygous

English

Etymology

New Latin, from combining form of Ancient Greek στέαρ (“fat, tallow, suet”) + πυγή (“rump”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /stiːəˈtɒpɪɡəs/

Adjective

steatopygous (comparative more steatopygous, superlative most steatopygous)

1. Pertaining to steatopygia; having fat or prominent buttocks.
   • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 59:

     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.

   • 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr. Enderby:

     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.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 341:

     At his side, Amuta and a steatopygous twelve-year-old in a striped shift.

See also

• callipygian/callipygous