Word: steatopygia
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...body stealer, for example, is a resurrectionist. But where is mooncalf? Where is poshlust? Sometimes the clue words are elusive. If one goes hunting for callipygian, he cannot look under "buttocks, rounded" or some such, but must hit "shapely buttocks" or "beautiful buttocks." ("Buttocks that are fat" yields steatopygia-which is a different matter altogether.) Bernstein's backward dictionary is a kind of combination thesaurus and crossword-puzzle dictionary. It gives only the "target" words, not their pronunciations and derivations. For moments of verbal parapraxis the deipnosophist seeking just the mot juste (ulotrichous? schlep?) may wish to keep...
When Cadillacs are flaunting theirs? You never thought the day'd come, didja, They'd glorify steatopygia...
...feminine topics of ruffles and steatopygia, a slim, unruffled expert made sense last week. Said Mrs. Mary Brewster White, OWI's expert on womanpower, to 300 clothes-conscious fashion editors and designers: "If there must be pants ... let them be designed so that they do not dishearten 'she who doubles any measurement that Venus can offer.' . . . [As] for ruffles . . . they have no place in wartime...
Twilight of Man is illustrated with Hooton's own drawings, one of which thoroughly illustrates the phenomenon of steatopygia - an accumulation of fat on the posterior - which appears in the females of some primitive human types, and which probably helped some women of the Glacial Period to keep warm when skimpier males crowded them from the fire. Hooton "apologizes" for his drawings thus: "Amateur illustration by an author is like profanity in conversation. It probably serves no useful purpose and certainly is shocking and objectionable to many, but the perpetrator enjoys...
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