单词 | phallus |
释义 | phallusn. 1. a. An image of the (usually erect) penis, esp. as a symbol of the generative power in nature, venerated in various religions; esp. one carried in the Dionysiac festivals of ancient Greece. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > phallus phallus1613 dildo1698 lingam1719 pillar-symbol1873 society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > non-Christian symbols or images > [noun] > representing phallus phallus1613 Priapus1613 priapisma1680 lingam1719 pillar-symbol1873 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 79 Two substantiall witnesses, besides others, affirming the same, namely two Phalli, or Priapi (huge Images of the priuie part of a man). 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 579 This yard, which they called Phallus, was vsually made of Figge-tree. 1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant v. 423 A hollow Phallus, in Alabaster. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 266/2 Phallus, among the Egyptians, was the emblem of fecundity. 1895 F. T. Elworthy Evil Eye 148 In compounded amulets the commonest of all objects was the phallus or some other suggesting the ideas conveyed by it. 1925 A. Huxley Let. 17 Dec. (1969) 261 The phalli are always shown in conjunction with a sacred cow. 1977 Times 18 Feb. 11/7 Fat villains sporting Old Comedy phalli. 1999 A. Hussein This Other Salt 145 ‘What is a lingam?’ ‘A phallus, stupid, a holy phallus, they pray to it.’ b. The penis, esp. as an organ of symbolic significance; (sometimes) spec. an erect penis (cf. ithyphallus n. at ithyphallic adj. and n. Derivatives). 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 1807 N. B. Halhed in J. H. Hindley Antient Indian Lit. 73 The fourth..was Kelee Yoog,..in his right hand holding a cloven tongue, and in his left hand his drawn Phallus. 1914 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Psychopathol. Everyday Life ix. 226 It served..to gratify in his imagination the repressed wish to enter into nearer relations with an attractive patient (interposition of phallus). 1935 R. V. Storer Sexual Technique xxi. 274 Effective virility therefore depends on erectile capacity; that is, the penis must be able to become a phallus (as the erect male organ in action is called). 1951 C. S. Ford & F. A. Beach Patterns Sexual Behaviour ii. 22 The bodily adjustments that give rise to these sensations involve merely insertion of the phallus followed by piston-like thrusts within the vagina. 1974 H. S. Kaplan New Sex Therapy i. 21 The female sexual response transforms the tight, dry vaginal potential space into a well-lubricated, open receptacle for the phallus. 2000 Isis 91 616/2 Surgical advances have made it easier for doctors to mold the genitals of infants of ambiguous sex into forms that satisfy their criteria for maleness and femaleness, criteria based predictably on phallus size (in the case of maleness) and penetrability (in the case of femaleness). 2. Botany ( Phallus.) A genus of gasteromycetous fungi of the order Phallales, in which at maturity a spongy, phallus-shaped receptacle bursts the peridium and elongates upwards, carrying the spores in a sticky mass at its tip. Also: a fungus of this genus (of which the stinkhorn fungus, P. impudicus, is the best known species).Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) II. 1178, after earlier use by H. Junius Phalli (1564). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > stink-horns gingran1660 stink-horn1724 phallus1759 stinking morel1777 stinking polecat1874 devil's horn1877 death baby1892 1759 J. Hill Veg. Syst. I. xlii. 132 In the Phallus, which approaches more to the Truffle, they [sc. ‘seeds’] are buried in a tough substance, which covers the head. a1794 W. Jones in Asiatick Researches (1795) 4 311 This and the Phallus are the only fungi, which I have yet seen in India. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §636 In Phallus the volva is more strikingly developed. 1880 C. E. Bessey Bot. 324 In Phallus and its allies the hymenial cavity lies beneath the double peridium and parallel to its surface. 1937 H. Gwynne-Vaughan & B. F. Barnes Struct. & Devel. Fungi (ed. 2) 351 In the developing sporophore of Phallus and its allies the basidia are peripheral in origin and face towards the axis. 1953 J. Ramsbottom Mushrooms & Toadstools xvi. 182 A violet-scented Phallus would certainly be exceptional. 1976 G. C. Ainsworth Introd. Hist. Mycol. iii. 38 There is a figure of the stink-horn (both ‘egg’ and fruit-body) which in 1562 had been described and illustrated by the Dutch physician Adriaen Jonghe (H. Junius) who gave the name ‘Phallus’ to it in the first independently published mycological monograph. Compounds phallus-centred adj. ΚΠ 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex iii. 35 The experience is thus phallus-centred and produces excitement without deep commitment. 1995 Amer. Anthropologist 97 452/1 Underlying this is a certain construction of the male body as phallus-centered, anal-retentive, closed. phallus-worship n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of the phallus phallus-worship1850 phallism1872 phallicism1883 1850 T. Carlyle Hudson's Statue in Latter-day Pamphlets vii. 43 Kings and Papas flying like detected coiners; and in their stead Icaria, Red Republic,..Literature of Desperation curiously conjoined with Phallus-Worship too clearly heralding centuries of bottomless Anarchy. 1907 T. R. Holmes Anc. Brit. 206 (note) It seems probable that the famous ‘Cerne Giant’..may belong to the Bronze Age and be connected with phallus-worship. 2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 25 Aug. For Witt, early worship meant phallus worship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1613 |
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