You know how you’re minding your own business, catching up on blogs and all of a sudden you find a tiny treasure, a bon mot that takes your breath away (OK, well, maybe not, but work with me here). A word you never knew existed but so perfect that once you learn it you try out all sorts of pronunciations in your head and say it out loud a thousand times in 24 hours or, lucky you, decide to blog about it.
That happened to me this weekend.
I was innocently admiring some photos of daylilies and followed the author’s link to a previous entry which led me to another entry about shrubs and berries and this absolutely perfect word on the very last line of her post.
callipygian (having a shapely butt)
1640–50; < Gk kallipýg(os) with beautiful buttocks; referring to a statue of Aphrodite (kalli- calli- + pyg (rump + -os adj. suffix) + -ian
“My, he certainly meets my callipygian ideal.”
“He’s got a nice ass.”
Seriously.
*For those of you expecting/fearing/hoping to see a picture of my butt to illustrate this post, dream on.
Very nice, indeed.
Heh. I know I fit this description… I’m just not saying what shape it is
I’ll have to use that one on my husband. He gets so embarrassed when I say things like “You have such a cute ass, Babe!”