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«callipygian» в переводных словарях — Яндекс.Словари
Dictionaries contain much more clumsy words than one can ever imagine
«callipygian» в переводных словарях — Яндекс.Словари
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Heh-heh! Perhaps the strangest thing about "callipygian" (I doubt that more than 1 English speaker in 10,000 could define it) is that there isn't a more ordinary word for such a useful concept!Originally Posted by Eugene-p
Dictionaries contain much more clumsy words than one can ever imagine
«callipygian» в переводных словарях — Яндекс.Словари
P.S. There's a related and equally rare word "steatopygian" (с жирными/толстыми ягодицами) -- presumably Sir Mix-A-Lot would argue that the two words are synonyms, but not everyone would agree...
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When I see such English words I cannot guess what do they mean. Conversely the word in the question is easily understandable because it was produced with regular word-formation rules from a well-known stem.
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