# Fat Bottomed Girls **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 15, 2009, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506 "2009-08-15T09:45:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![James\_in\_Toronto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@James\_in\_Toronto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_in_Toronto)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/21 "2009-08-17T21:10:09Z")
[andrew offutt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_J._Offutt) used the word “callimastian” in one of his books, and [Robert Jordan](http://books.google.com/books?q=callimastian) has used it, too. This word is formed by analogy with callipygian, and represents the view from the other direction. There’s a statue called [Venus Callipygos](http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=deskbar&q=Venus+Callipygos+in+the+Archaeological+Museum+in+Naples.)in the Archaeological Museum in Naples. She’s called that not because observers think she’s cute, but because she seems to be staring over her shoulder saying “Does this marble make me look fat?” ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/22 "2009-08-17T21:15:00Z")
the term you want to use is: dumps like a truck ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/23 "2009-08-17T21:37:54Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > Its been a long long time since I opened up a playboy magazine, but now and then they would show a page an artist’s rendition of frollicking fat bottomed girls who were referred to by the name of the original artist. > > Memory is quite vague at this point but the word used sounded something like “brogdollian”. Eldon Dedini, maybe? (NSFW) h ttp://www.animationarchive.org/labels/eldon%20dedini.html h ttp://alecsothblog.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/the-perv-humor-of-currin-freud/ h ttp://sugarbank.com/2007/10/08/eldon-dedini/ ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/24 "2009-08-18T01:42:41Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Spider Robinson, who publicized “callipygian,” also offered up the technical geological term “spathic,” which means “having good cleavage.” 🙂 Spathic, callipygian or otherwise, though, there are to be no phanerogams in the parlor. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/25 "2009-08-18T02:13:00Z")
_Mega_pygian. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/26 "2009-08-18T02:47:32Z")
All I know is there’s a lot of difference between a “big-ass woman” and a “big-assed woman.” ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/27 "2009-08-18T03:41:34Z")
I don’t know but I’ve been told: big-legged woman ain’t got no soul. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/28 "2009-08-18T04:00:48Z")
Well, according to **Queen** fat bottom girls make the rockin’ world go round. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/29 "2009-08-18T04:09:54Z")
It’s called “Baby got Back!” You people need to get out more. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/30 "2009-08-18T05:10:01Z")
Rubenesque? ---
**Author:** ![ajdebosco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@ajdebosco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajdebosco)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/31 "2009-08-18T20:06:03Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Rubenesque? “…plump or rounded usually in an attractive or pleaasing way” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/32 "2009-08-18T22:53:24Z")
> [@Anaglyph](#): > > The prefix “[bathy](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bathy-)-” or “batho-” refers to depth, [From Greek bathus, deep, and from Greek bathos, depth (from bathus).] > e.g. bathysphere for deep-sea Well, the looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand. Or so I have read. ---
**Author:** ![mrpayday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@mrpayday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrpayday)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/33 "2009-08-19T06:53:35Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > Its been a long long time since I opened up a playboy magazine, but now and then they would show a page an artist’s rendition of frollicking fat bottomed girls who were referred to by the name of the original artist. > > Memory is quite vague at this point but the word used sounded something like “brogdollian”. Robert Crumb? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seventh_Deadly_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/34 "2009-08-19T12:33:40Z")
The word you’re looking for is clearly “badonkadonkulous.” ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/35 "2009-08-19T12:43:37Z")
There actually was a pin-up artist in the Vargas era with a name something very much like Bawdiman, whose drawings were characterized by subtly exaggerated thunderous thighs. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/36 "2009-08-19T13:08:02Z")
> [@Darth\_Sensitive](#): > > Hmmm. I was unaware of which of these words were right for the situation. > Errr. I mean… > > _NEVER KNEW NO GOOD FROM BAD_ I was such a skinny lad _NEVER KNEW NO GOOD FROM BAD_ But I knew life before I left the nursery Left alone with big fat Fannie She was such a naughtly nanny Heap big woman You made a bad boy out of me. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/37 "2009-08-19T17:42:04Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Well, the looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand. > > Or so I have read. Talk about mud flaps, my gal’s got 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/38 "2009-08-20T09:29:14Z")
**Polycarp** , There are _some_ men who have the fatty deposits in the thighs and buttocks also. I believe these earliest of South Africans are considered Negroid. And I have heard anthropologists speak of this characteristic being passed down to modern women in a less noticeable form. I am not an anthropologist and I don’t mind being corrected by someone well educated in that field. (Just don’t label me a bigot for what others have taught me.) BTW, the “Hottentot” label is considered extremely offensive. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/39 "2009-08-20T12:03:14Z")
> [@The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](#): > > The word you’re looking for is clearly “badonkadonkulous.” Wrong, it’s bootylicious;) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506/40 "2009-08-21T13:02:50Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > BTW, the “Hottentot” label is considered extremely offensive. I think Poly’s aware of that, which is why he quoted the expression like that. Used in a context like that, it’s not offensive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-bottomed-girls/506506.md?page=3)