Priapusn.

Brit.

/prʌɪˈeɪpəs/, U.S.

/praɪˈeɪpəs/

Inflections: Plural Priapi, Priapuses.

Forms: Middle English Papus (transmission error), Middle English Pirapus (probably transmission error), Middle English– Priapus, 1500s Pryapus. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Priāpus.

Etymology: < classical Latin Priāpus a god of procreation, his image placed in a garden to keep off birds and thieves, any object of phallic shape, in post-classical Latin also the penis (from 12th cent. in British sources; 15th cent. in continental sources) < Hellenistic Greek Πρίαπος , of unknown origin. In sense 5 probably after French priape de mer (1765). Compare Middle French, French priape phallus (c1480; 1304 in Old French as preape ; subsequently from 1690), Priape a god of procreation (1585 or earlier). Compare later Priap n.In plural form Priapi after the Latin plural form.

1. A Graeco-Roman god of procreation and fertility, usually represented as a small, deformed figure with an enormous phallus, and later taken as a tutelary god of gardens, vineyards, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Priapus

Priapusc1395

c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 2034 Ne Priapus [v.r. Pirapus] ne myghte nat suffise, Thogh he be god of gardyns, for to telle The beautee of the gardyn.

c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls 252 The god Priapus [v.r. Papus] saw I..Withinne the temple.

1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 187 Thare was the god of gardingis, Priapus.

1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Mij Priapus the great tooled god.

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 13 Shee's able to freze the god Priapus, and vndoe a whole generation.

1651 T. Stanley Poems 46 Satyrs Priapusses in mourning weeds.

1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 497 It..is quite naked, and represents a Priapus.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 141 Among all the dæmon herd what one is there of a form..so odious..as Priapus.

1810 P. Stockdale Amyntas iv. ii, in Poet. Wks. II. 128 Pan, Pales, and Pomona I invoked, Priapus, and nocturnal Hecate.

1870 D. G. Rossetti Poems 125 Let offerings nicely placed But hide Priapus to the waist, And whoso looks on him shall see An eligible deity.

1928 W. B. Graves Readings in Public Opinion viii. 292 It would be a horrible thing to permit the effigy of so noted an infidel to appear... It would be like..resurrecting the god, Priapus.

1971 Classical Q. New Ser. 21 424 Statues of Priapus could be..of an elaborate type, in which the god was represented as having two protruding physical features.

1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 241 It is not surprising to learn that Priapus was known as the Red God.

a. Chiefly literary and poetic. The penis, esp. when erect.

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

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica v. 355 The people of olde, whan they lyste ony relacion to make of mannys preuy membris..they callyd it Priapus.

1680 A. Behn in J. Wilmot Poems Several Occasions 88 Her timerous Hand she gently laid, Or guided by Design or Chance, Upon that fabulous Priapus.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Priapus, a Term somtimes apply'd to the genital Parts of Men.

1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Priapus, penis.

1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave ix. 178 He threatened her with a priapus that had already once inflicted upon her an almost mortal wound.

2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 78 How can I make my breast of chicken and mashed potatoes tower like a fully engorged priapus over my awed and cowering guests?

b. A representation of the penis; a phallus or phallic object; spec. a drinking vessel of phallic shape. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > other specific shapes

gripe's egg1391

gripe-shell15..

Priapus1613

man with the beard1631

delphin1638

belly-cup1673

spout cup1702

leaf cup1716

image mug1788

rhyton1820

toby1841

Sussex pig1846

bell-cupa1849

biberon1853

moustache cup1863

trembleuse cup1869

steeple-cup1909

thistle cup1947

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 Phalli, or Priapi (huge Images of the priuie part of a man).

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 360 A drinking glass made like a Priapus, which explains that of the Poet, Vitreo bibit ille Priapo.

1693 N. Tate tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires ii. 24 Another in a Glass-Priapus swills, While twisted Gold his platted Tresses fills.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 324 Urns, Lamps, Lachrymary Vessels, Priapus's.

1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 493 This was made for a vessel, such as that described above, except that besides that the mouth of this figure is pierced, the liquor can also be poured from the Priapus.

1781 W. Hamilton Let. 30 Dec. in R. P. Knight Acct. Worship of Priapus (1786) 9 There are also waxen vows, that represent other parts of the body.., but of these there are few in comparison of the number of the Priapi.

1998 Evening Standard (Nexis) 6 Aug. 21 Today's references are vastly more explicit. It has become difficult to wait for the number 38 without a priapus poking you in the eye.

3. A statue or image of the god Priapus, esp. one placed in a garden as a tutelary presence or as a scarecrow.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > of gods or goddesses

Venusa1568

Herma1579

Priapus1579

mercury1586

Vulcan1638

victoriaa1684

mercury's statue1684

pantheum1706

signum pantheum1706

xoanon1706

Hermes1728

Minerva1802

Nike1850

Trimurti1877

hermetic-

1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 691 The carpenter being doubtfull whether hee shoulde make of me a stoole, or Priapus, chose rather that I should be a God.

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love i. iv. sig. C2^v Pulling downe a superstitious Crosse, and aduancing a Venus; or Priapus, in place of it.

1639 J. Shirley Ball iv. sig. F3^v Thou wot stop a breach in a mudde wall, Or serve for a Priapus in the garden to Fright away crowes.

1705 J. Addison Rem. Several Parts of Italy 343 On the old Pagan Tombs..sometimes one meets with a lewd Figure of a Priapus.

1766 tr. Voltaire Philos. Hist. xxx. 176 All those wooden Priapus's, with which the gardens were filled to scare birds.

1804 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry II. i. i. 7 I see no corn growing underneath, from which, a priapus, or scare-crow might affright the birds.

1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. i. 188 She is no Priapus to drive the birds away, but as if she were a bramble-net, their notes are caught in her ears.

1917 T. S. Eliot Prufrock & Other Observ. 35 I thought of..Priapus in the shrubbery Gaping at the lady in the swing.

1963 A. Chastel Age of Humanism (Notes on Plates) 337 The figures as well as the ornament (there is a Priapus among the vinebranches) celebrate the general theme of fecundity.

1993 D. S. Olson Confessions Aubrey Beardsley (1994) ix. 191 He was standing and holding forth beside a small statue of an ancient garden deity—a prickless Priapus.

†4. Procreation; the generative capacity or function. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > quality or capacity of

feracityc1420

fecundity1447

fertility1490

virility1598

fruitfulness1624

Priapus1637

procreativeness1655

breedingness1674

prolificness1678

prolificalness1699

polytoky1702

breediness1753

prolificacy1756

philoprogenitiveness1842

propagability1853

teemfulness1855

teeming1856

progenitiveness1868

fecundability1926

1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan ii. v. 77 This beast [sc. the beaver] is of a masculine vertue for the advancement of Priapus.

5. Zoology. In full sea priapus. A holothurian, a sea cucumber. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > member of (sea-cucumber)

quab1617

sea-pudding1750

sea-orange1753

Priapus1765

holothuria1792

sea cucumber1841

sea-gherkin1841

holothurian1842

sea-melon1854

nigger1855

slug1855

holothurioid1859

sea-quince1861

holothurid1877

red fish1880

pumpkin1897

1765 Universal Mag. 37 129/1 They have two holes as the priapuses.

1793 J. Trapp tr. A. M. Rochon Voy. Madagascar 390 The Chinese pay likewise a liberal price for shark-fins, sea-priapus, crabs, sago, [and] tripam.

1855 J. Bostock & H. T. Riley Nat. Hist. Pliny II. ix. ii. 359 Cuvier suggests that he [sc. Pliny] probably alludes to..the sea-priapus.

1940 J. Wheelwright Polit. Self-Portrait 39 Such were the offerings to the Sea Priapus Of a Piraean fisher.

Derivatives

† priapiform adj. Obsolete rare of phallic shape.

ΚΠ

1845 C. D. Meigs tr. M. Colombat de L'Isère Treat. Dis. & Special Hygiene Females vi. 149 The ancient Greek physicians made use of pessaries..of the form and length of the male organ, which is the reason why they are called πριαπισχωτα, or priapiform pessaries.

1895 Classical Rev. 9 139/1 Among the objects with it were..early Imperial coins..and a singular object (possibly a priapiform lamp).

† priapish adj. Obsolete rare lewd, obscene.

ΘΚΠ

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

1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. cvii That filthy priapish confession which ye spew in the eare.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	priapus
释义	Priapusn. Brit. /prʌɪˈeɪpəs/, U.S. /praɪˈeɪpəs/ Inflections: Plural Priapi, Priapuses. Forms: Middle English Papus (transmission error), Middle English Pirapus (probably transmission error), Middle English– Priapus, 1500s Pryapus. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Priāpus. Etymology: < classical Latin Priāpus a god of procreation, his image placed in a garden to keep off birds and thieves, any object of phallic shape, in post-classical Latin also the penis (from 12th cent. in British sources; 15th cent. in continental sources) < Hellenistic Greek Πρίαπος , of unknown origin. In sense 5 probably after French priape de mer (1765). Compare Middle French, French priape phallus (c1480; 1304 in Old French as preape ; subsequently from 1690), Priape a god of procreation (1585 or earlier). Compare later Priap n.In plural form Priapi after the Latin plural form. 1. A Graeco-Roman god of procreation and fertility, usually represented as a small, deformed figure with an enormous phallus, and later taken as a tutelary god of gardens, vineyards, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Priapus Priapusc1395 c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 2034 Ne Priapus [v.r. Pirapus] ne myghte nat suffise, Thogh he be god of gardyns, for to telle The beautee of the gardyn. c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls 252 The god Priapus [v.r. Papus] saw I..Withinne the temple. 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 187 Thare was the god of gardingis, Priapus. 1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Mij Priapus the great tooled god. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 13 Shee's able to freze the god Priapus, and vndoe a whole generation. 1651 T. Stanley Poems 46 Satyrs Priapusses in mourning weeds. 1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 497 It..is quite naked, and represents a Priapus. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 141 Among all the dæmon herd what one is there of a form..so odious..as Priapus. 1810 P. Stockdale Amyntas iv. ii, in Poet. Wks. II. 128 Pan, Pales, and Pomona I invoked, Priapus, and nocturnal Hecate. 1870 D. G. Rossetti Poems 125 Let offerings nicely placed But hide Priapus to the waist, And whoso looks on him shall see An eligible deity. 1928 W. B. Graves Readings in Public Opinion viii. 292 It would be a horrible thing to permit the effigy of so noted an infidel to appear... It would be like..resurrecting the god, Priapus. 1971 Classical Q. New Ser. 21 424 Statues of Priapus could be..of an elaborate type, in which the god was represented as having two protruding physical features. 1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 241 It is not surprising to learn that Priapus was known as the Red God. 2. a. Chiefly literary and poetic. The penis, esp. when erect. 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 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica v. 355 The people of olde, whan they lyste ony relacion to make of mannys preuy membris..they callyd it Priapus. 1680 A. Behn in J. Wilmot Poems Several Occasions 88 Her timerous Hand she gently laid, Or guided by Design or Chance, Upon that fabulous Priapus. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Priapus, a Term somtimes apply'd to the genital Parts of Men. 1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Priapus, penis. 1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave ix. 178 He threatened her with a priapus that had already once inflicted upon her an almost mortal wound. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 78 How can I make my breast of chicken and mashed potatoes tower like a fully engorged priapus over my awed and cowering guests? b. A representation of the penis; a phallus or phallic object; spec. a drinking vessel of phallic shape. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > other specific shapes gripe's egg1391 gripe-shell15.. Priapus1613 man with the beard1631 delphin1638 belly-cup1673 spout cup1702 leaf cup1716 image mug1788 rhyton1820 toby1841 Sussex pig1846 bell-cupa1849 biberon1853 moustache cup1863 trembleuse cup1869 steeple-cup1909 thistle cup1947 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 Phalli, or Priapi (huge Images of the priuie part of a man). 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 360 A drinking glass made like a Priapus, which explains that of the Poet, Vitreo bibit ille Priapo. 1693 N. Tate tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires ii. 24 Another in a Glass-Priapus swills, While twisted Gold his platted Tresses fills. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 324 Urns, Lamps, Lachrymary Vessels, Priapus's. 1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 493 This was made for a vessel, such as that described above, except that besides that the mouth of this figure is pierced, the liquor can also be poured from the Priapus. 1781 W. Hamilton Let. 30 Dec. in R. P. Knight Acct. Worship of Priapus (1786) 9 There are also waxen vows, that represent other parts of the body.., but of these there are few in comparison of the number of the Priapi. 1998 Evening Standard (Nexis) 6 Aug. 21 Today's references are vastly more explicit. It has become difficult to wait for the number 38 without a priapus poking you in the eye. 3. A statue or image of the god Priapus, esp. one placed in a garden as a tutelary presence or as a scarecrow. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > of gods or goddesses Venusa1568 Herma1579 Priapus1579 mercury1586 Vulcan1638 victoriaa1684 mercury's statue1684 pantheum1706 signum pantheum1706 xoanon1706 Hermes1728 Minerva1802 Nike1850 Trimurti1877 hermetic- 1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 691 The carpenter being doubtfull whether hee shoulde make of me a stoole, or Priapus, chose rather that I should be a God. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love i. iv. sig. C2^v Pulling downe a superstitious Crosse, and aduancing a Venus; or Priapus, in place of it. 1639 J. Shirley Ball iv. sig. F3^v Thou wot stop a breach in a mudde wall, Or serve for a Priapus in the garden to Fright away crowes. 1705 J. Addison Rem. Several Parts of Italy 343 On the old Pagan Tombs..sometimes one meets with a lewd Figure of a Priapus. 1766 tr. Voltaire Philos. Hist. xxx. 176 All those wooden Priapus's, with which the gardens were filled to scare birds. 1804 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry II. i. i. 7 I see no corn growing underneath, from which, a priapus, or scare-crow might affright the birds. 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. i. 188 She is no Priapus to drive the birds away, but as if she were a bramble-net, their notes are caught in her ears. 1917 T. S. Eliot Prufrock & Other Observ. 35 I thought of..Priapus in the shrubbery Gaping at the lady in the swing. 1963 A. Chastel Age of Humanism (Notes on Plates) 337 The figures as well as the ornament (there is a Priapus among the vinebranches) celebrate the general theme of fecundity. 1993 D. S. Olson Confessions Aubrey Beardsley (1994) ix. 191 He was standing and holding forth beside a small statue of an ancient garden deity—a prickless Priapus. †4. Procreation; the generative capacity or function. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > quality or capacity of feracityc1420 fecundity1447 fertility1490 virility1598 fruitfulness1624 Priapus1637 procreativeness1655 breedingness1674 prolificness1678 prolificalness1699 polytoky1702 breediness1753 prolificacy1756 philoprogenitiveness1842 propagability1853 teemfulness1855 teeming1856 progenitiveness1868 fecundability1926 1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan ii. v. 77 This beast [sc. the beaver] is of a masculine vertue for the advancement of Priapus. 5. Zoology. In full sea priapus. A holothurian, a sea cucumber. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > member of (sea-cucumber) quab1617 sea-pudding1750 sea-orange1753 Priapus1765 holothuria1792 sea cucumber1841 sea-gherkin1841 holothurian1842 sea-melon1854 nigger1855 slug1855 holothurioid1859 sea-quince1861 holothurid1877 red fish1880 pumpkin1897 1765 Universal Mag. 37 129/1 They have two holes as the priapuses. 1793 J. Trapp tr. A. M. Rochon Voy. Madagascar 390 The Chinese pay likewise a liberal price for shark-fins, sea-priapus, crabs, sago, [and] tripam. 1855 J. Bostock & H. T. Riley Nat. Hist. Pliny II. ix. ii. 359 Cuvier suggests that he [sc. Pliny] probably alludes to..the sea-priapus. 1940 J. Wheelwright Polit. Self-Portrait 39 Such were the offerings to the Sea Priapus Of a Piraean fisher. Derivatives † priapiform adj. Obsolete rare of phallic shape. ΚΠ 1845 C. D. Meigs tr. M. Colombat de L'Isère Treat. Dis. & Special Hygiene Females vi. 149 The ancient Greek physicians made use of pessaries..of the form and length of the male organ, which is the reason why they are called πριαπισχωτα, or priapiform pessaries. 1895 Classical Rev. 9 139/1 Among the objects with it were..early Imperial coins..and a singular object (possibly a priapiform lamp). † priapish adj. Obsolete rare lewd, obscene. ΘΚΠ 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 1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. cvii That filthy priapish confession which ye spew in the eare. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1395
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