panpygoptosisn.
/ˌpanpʌɪɡɒpˈtəʊsɪs/, U.S. /ˈˌpænpaɪɡɑpˈtoʊsəs/ humorous.
The condition of having short legs. Cf. duck's disease n. at duck n.1 Compounds 2a.Only in Beckett's Murphy and discussions of it.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [noun] > disorders of leg
white leg1801
snow-shoe evil1809
sparganosis1822
milk leg1830
phlegmasia alba dolens1830
scissor leg1850
scelalgia1853
tennis-knee1901
intermittent claudication1909
knee1921
shin-cracker1928
shin-splint1930
panpygoptosis1938
shelter leg1940
phlegmasia cerulea dolens1950
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.
1982 ELH 49 217 The erstwhile pot poet, Austin Ticklepenny, and the sufferer from Panpygoptosis, Miss Dew, momentarily prevent Murphy from entering this landscape.
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panˌpygopˈtotic adj.
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1938 S. Beckett Murphy v. 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1938