Meanings
comparative more pygian · superlative most pygian
- rarePertaining to or resembling buttocks.
Pygian Mysteries Eumolpus did not hesitate to invite the girl to the pygian mysteries. He asked her to sit down on the good part recommended to her (that is, on himself, to whose goodness her mother had recommended her daughter).
1980, Harry Ezekiel Wedeck, Roman morals: a survey of depravity, page 631 more example
[...] and the terrible conviction forced itself upon my mind, that progress for me in this path there was none, until my executioner should have turned my pygian epidermis into a road-map, and have engraved all my stopping places indelibly ...
1841, The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 483Synonyms: natiform
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivePertaining to or resembling buttocks.
Origin
- Ancient Greekπυγή“buttocks”
- Englishpygian
From Ancient Greek πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”) + -ian, or extracted from callipygian and similar terms.
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pygian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pygian
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