Etymology

pygian

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Today it means: Pertaining to or resembling buttocks. Full definition →

Ancient Greek πυγή
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromπυγή“buttocks”
  2. English todaypygian

From Ancient Greek πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”) + -ian, or extracted from callipygian and similar terms.

Words from the same roots

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