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adj
Of or pertaining to the erect phallus that was carried in bacchic processions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ancient-Rome, historical
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adj
Of or pertaining to the erect phallus that was carried in bacchic processions.
Of a poem or song: having the metre of an ode sung in honour of the bacchic phallus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ancient-Rome, historical, specifically
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adj
Of or pertaining to an upward pointing, erect penis; (specifically) of an artistic depiction of a deity or other figure: possessing an erect penis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: priapic
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adj
Lascivious, obscene.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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Synonyms: adult, bawdy, blue, cheeky, dirty, indecent, filthy, gross, harlot, impure, ithyphallic, lewd, licentious, mucky, naughty, near the knuckle, obscene, off-colour, racy, raunchy, ribald, ribaudred, ribaudrous, risqué, rorty, salacious, saucy, shocking, sluttish, slutlike, slutty, smutty, spicy, tartish, tarty, trampy, vulgar
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adj
Pertaining to a metrical combination of two trochees followed by one spondee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, poetry, publishing, writing
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noun
A poem or song in an ithyphallic metre.
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noun
A lascivious or obscene poem or song.
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History
Borrowed from Late Latin ithyphallicus, from Ancient Greek ἰθυφαλλικός (ithuphallikós), from ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος (īthŭ́phallos, “phallus carried in festivals of Bacchus; ode sung in honour of the phallus; dance accompanying such an ode; dancer performing such a dance”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος is derived from ἰθῠ́ς (ithŭ́s) (variant of εὐθῠ́ς (euthŭ́s, “straight”)) + φαλλός (phallós, “penis; image of a penis, phallus”). The English word can be analysed as ithyphallus + -ic. As regards the noun, compare Latin ithyphallicum (“poem with the same metre as the hymns to Priapus”).
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