different between buttocks vs steatopygous

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?t?ks/

Noun

buttocks

1. plural of buttock.
   • 1707, Thomas Brown, "Moll Quarles's Answer to Mother Creswell of Famous Memory" in The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho. Brown, containing Letters from the Dead to the Living both Serious and Comical, part three, page 184:

     At lea?t five Hundred of the?e reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ran?acking our Hou?es, leaving me ?ometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ?o much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]

English

Etymology

From steatopyga, steatopygia +? -ous. Steatopyga is borrowed from New Latin steatopyga, from Ancient Greek ??????? (sté?tos) (genitive singular of ????? (stéar, “hard fat, suet, tallow”)) + ???? (p?g?, “buttocks, rump”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st?.??t?.p?.??s/, /?st?.?.t?(?)?pa?.??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st?.??t?.p?.??s/, /?st?.?.to(?)?pa?.??s/
• Hyphenation: ste?a?to?pyg?ous

Adjective

steatopygous (comparative more steatopygous, superlative most steatopygous)

1. (physiology) Pertaining to steatopygia; having fat or prominent buttocks.

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See also

• callipygian, callipygous
• fat-ass

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References

Further reading

• steatopygia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia