Thread: Вопросы по грамматике и значению слов (by Simon000001

Originally Posted by Eugene-p

Dictionaries contain much more clumsy words than one can ever imagine
«callipygian» в переводных словарях — Яндекс.Словари

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!

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...

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.