Sep. 3rd, 2008

[identity profile] rainbow-yarn.livejournal.com
callipygian [kal-uh-pij-ee-uhn]

adjective
having well-shaped buttocks.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Callipygian


Louisa generally liked to wear pants to work, but when she found that she was described as the 'callipygian girl' of the office by her male coworkers, she felt harassed and began wearing flowing skirts that hid the shape of her backside.
[identity profile] flaming-tyger.livejournal.com
mendicant-adjective
1. begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
2. pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar.
–noun
3. a person who lives by begging; beggar.
4. a member of any of several orders of friars that originally forbade ownership of property, subsisting mostly on alms.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mendicant

The local homeless man seemed to defy the sterotype of a mendicant, as he had an email address that he checked at the Apple store.


(True fact)

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