ithyphallicadj.n.
/ɪθɪˈfalɪk/ A. adj.
a. Pertaining to or associated with the phallus carried in procession at the Bacchic festivals; spec. composed in the metre of the Bacchic hymns (the trochaic dimeter brachycatalectic).By ancient writers applied also to several other metres, e.g. the Phalæcian, ending with three trochees; Selden applies it to the Versus Priapeius.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > types of dimeter
Adonic1671
paroemiac1778
ithyphallic1795
Adonian1871
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > other seasons and feasts > classical > [adjective] > Bacchus > phallus carried in procession
ithyphallian1693
ithyphallic1795
1795 S. Parr in E. H. Barker Parriana (1829) II. 595 Ithyphallic verse.
1818 R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. (1876) 98 Ithyphallic ceremonies.
1830 J. W. Warter tr. Aristophanes Wasps in tr. Aristophanes Acharnians 122 (note) The metre..is an asynartete of Iamb. and Troch. Dim. Brach., or Ithyphallic.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 510 The Athenians received Demetrius..went out to meet him with ithyphallic hymns.
1898 Edinb. Rev. July 62 Allying themselves with music in the dithyramb and with the ithyphallic procession.
b. Grossly indecent, obscene.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > lewd, bawdy, or obscene
lewdc1386
filthy?c1400
knavishc1405
sensual?a1425
ribaldousc1440
dishonestc1450
bawdya1513
ribald?a1513
ribaldious?1518
slovenly?1518
ribaldry1519
priapish1531
ribaldish?1533
filthous1551
ribaldly1570
obscene1571
bawdisha1586
obscenous1591
greasy1598
dirty1599
fulsome1600
spurcitious1658
lasciviating1660
smutty1668
bawdry1764
ribaldric1796
un-Quakerlike1824
fat1836
ithyphallic1856
hot1892
rorty1898
rude1919
bitchy1928
feelthy1930
raunchy1943
ranchy1959
down and dirty1969
steamy1970
sleazo1972
1856 Christian Examiner & Relig. Misc. Nov. 473 An ithyphallic audacity that insults what is most sacred and decent among men.
B. n.
A poem in ithyphallic metre; also, a poem of licentious or indecent character.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > licentious or pornographic poem
ithyphallic1614
Fescennine1624
Sotadic1645
priapics1865
pornogram1936
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 117 Wanton Catullus, comparing a heauie fellow..to a log, hath this Ithyphallique: Talis iste meus Stupor nil videt, nihil audit.
1778 E. Apthorp Lett. Prevalence Christianity 383 The pæon was peculiar to Apollo, the ithyphallic to Bacchus.
1822 Ld. Byron Vision of Judgm. Pref. I omit noticing some..Ithyphallics.
a1876 M. Collins Pen Sketches (1879) II. 130 Talk of ithyphallics! Byron might well blush at the noyades and lepers of this later time.
Derivatives
ithyˈphallus n. an erect phallus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis > erect
Priapusc1487
Priap1561
Priapian1598
polec1600
Jack1604
maypole1607
stalk1609
rod1641
bone1654
stick1707
ramrod1768
horn1785
phallus1807
phallos1885
ithyphallus1889
boner1960
stiff1980
stonker1987
1889 in Cent. Dict.
1967 Listener 28 Sept. 401/2 The fathers..exhibit their ithyphalluses.
1968 Punch 27 Mar. 469/3 The spike (Laius's sword) Jocasta steadily presses through her womb is replaced by a golden ithyphallus ten foot tall.
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