pyg-, pygo-, -pyga, -pygia +
(Greek: rump, buttocks, bottom; rear end; butt; the posterior part of the body)
pygia
A reference to buttocks.
pygidium (s), pygidia (pl); pygidial
The posterior part of the body in certain invertebrates, chiefly insects, crustaceans, and worms, when forming a distinct segment or division; the caudal or pygal segment.
pygobombes
Men or women with sexy, well-rounded rumps.
pygobranchia, pygobranchiate, phgobranchious
A group of gastropods having the gills arranged round the anus.
pygodidymus
A fetus with double hips and pelvis.
pygopagous, pygopagus
Twins united in the region of the buttocks so that the two are back to back.
pygophilia
Arousal from contact with the buttocks.
pygophilist
A person who is especially fond of buttocks.
pygophilous, pygophily
1. Loving sexy buttocks.
2. Men who have a special attraction for female buttocks.
pygopod, pygopodous
Of or pertaining to the Pygopodes, an order of aquatic birds, including the auks, grebes, and loons, having the legs set very far to the back.
pygoscopia
The observance of someone's backside or, especially, the buttocks.
This may be particularly true when the observed person has what is considered a callipygian or spheropygian enhancement that attracts attention.
Quit leering at my butt, you sexist pigs! Don't deny it. Why can't you guys just quit staring at me?
Some women apparently don't like to be the subject of pygoscopic observations
Defined as someone who is obviously observing someone's buttocks, pagoscopia may be a form of flattery or a condition of embarrassment for the person being so obviously ogled.
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years in research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"
—Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).
Boys don't make passes
at female smart-asses.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
pygoscopophobia
An "internal writhing" or pathological fear and hatred that someone is watching the subject's back side or one's buttocks.
pygotripsis
The rubbing of the buttocks as a means of deriving sexual pleasure.
quatopygia
An enticing movement of a man or woman's rear end.
spheropygian
Having rounded and full buttocks.
Word families with similar applications: "back, backside" word units:
dorso- (back, on the back);
lumbo- (loin, lower back);
nuch- (nape of the neck).
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