A great word from Anu Garg’s Word of the Day. Callipygous means having well-formed buttocks coming from the Greek meaning “beautiful ass.” This is not to be confused with dasypygal, meaning having a hairy ass or steatopygia, meaning having a fat ass. What a wonderful language the Greeks have.
callipygous
December 19, 2011
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Tmesis
December 1, 2010Anu Garg’s amazing word of the day meaning the insertion of a word into another. For example: abso-fucking-lutly.
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Cwm
September 8, 2009A great word to get you out of a fix in Scrabble perhaps, cwm was the word-of-the-day on Anu Garg’s wonderful website, wordsmith.org, not so long ago. Cwm is a Welsh word, of course. It is pronounced “koom,” and it is a “steep bowl-shaped mountain basin, carved by glaciers. Also known as cirque.” Garg gives a picture of a cwm as well that can be seen here.
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Birl
August 20, 2009A wonderful word from Anu Garg’s wonderful Word of the Day emails. To birl is to rotate a floating log by running on it. It is a far better word than its practical brother logrolling. Birling is the only true name for such a sport.
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