bathykolpian

[prettygoodword]

bathykolpian - adj., deep-bosomed.


That is, having large breasts. Colorful 19th century American coinage from Greek roots: bathus, deep + kolpos, cleft (between the breasts).

---L.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

But who coined it, where, and why?

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Not clear. Oliver Wendell Holmes is one of the earliest citations (in 1858), but not the first -- be lovely to think he's responsible.

---L.