pygian
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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/ˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/
Definition of pygian
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(rare)Pertaining to or resembling buttocks.
“[...] 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 ...”
“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).”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”) + -ian, or extracted from callipygian and similar terms.
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