Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology: The rump; the uropygium; the anus or anal region
- noun In entomology, the pygidium.
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Examples
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Why, as far as I know he hasn't even had the opportunity to wipe your podex with his sponge-on-a-stick, Sulla!
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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Eve was not a serpent but a monkey cursed by the forfeiture of _patella_ and _podex_; therefore doomed to crawl!
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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It is usually derived from the Greek _pais_ (boy), but some authorities have derived it from _pedex_ or _podex_ (anus).
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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When the Isfahan man mocked Shaykh Sa'adi by comparing the bald pates of Shirazian elders to the bottom of a lotá, a brass cup with a wide-necked opening used in the Hammam, the witty poet turned its aperture upwards and thereto likened the well-abused podex of an Isfahani youth.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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This was the Prince whom, we may remember, Sidonia had whipped with her irreverent hands upon his princely _podex, _ when he was a little boy.
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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Highness upon his princely _podex_, that it would have melted the heart of a stone.
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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Hah! then I see the 'podex of your gnat Is trumpet-fashion'd — Oh! the blessings on him For this discovery; well may he escape The law's strict scrutiny, who thus dev elopes*
Comedies. Translated into English, with notes [by Richard Cumberland and others] 1812
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When the Isfahan man mocked Shaykh Sa’adi by comparing the bald pates of Shirazian elders to the bottom of a lotá, a brass cup with a wide-necked opening used in the Hammam, the witty poet turned its aperture upwards and thereto likened the well-abused podex of an Isfahani youth.
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“If you don’t get off your podex soon and do something, you might find that you’ve left it too late to do anything.”
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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“If you don’t get off your podex soon and do something, you might find that you’ve left it too late to do anything.”
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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