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KAKOPYGE :  noun  someone who has ugly buttocks

. . . a dark-haired kakopyge with fat hands, an insipid smile, and the morals of a muskcat.

--Theroux, Darconville's Cat, p. 308.

KALEIDOGYN :  noun  a beautiful woman

Awkwardness is the prerogative of kaleidogyns.

--Theroux, Darconville's Cat, p. 94.

KARASS :  noun  See quotation. Compare DUPRASS, GRANFALLOON

We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon. . . .a karass ignores national, institutional, occupational, familial, and class boundaries.

--Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, p. 14.

KINABRA :  noun  See quotation

The kinabra of the goat. . . .It is the Greek for the stank of a billy goat. There is no smell like it, and the Greeks had a separate word, because it really isn't a stink. It is his glory and pride.

--Davenport, "The Dawn in Erewhon",
Tatlin!, p. 161.

KOOSH :  verb  See quotation

. . . fire--purring and snapping, a bloodshot terminal moraine unto itself--was as familiar as Christmas morning. It said hello, come in and koosh, which is Manx for warm your loins.

--West, Out of My Depths, p. 49.