panpygoptosis nonce-wd.
(ˌpænpaɪgəʊpˈtəʊsɪs)
[A fanciful formation combining the elements pan-, pygo-, opto-, -osis.]
= duck's disease s.v. duck n.1 12. Hence panˌpygopˈtotic a.
| 1938 S. Beckett Murphy v. 97 Duck's disease is a distressing pathological condition in which the thighs are suppressed and the buttocks spring directly from behind the knees, aptly described in Steiss's nosonomy as Panpygoptosis. Ibid. 104 Miss Dew's control, a panpygoptotic Manichee of the fourth century,..had not..been raised so wholly a spiritual body as yet to sit down with much more comfort than she had in the natural. |