sexophonen.
/ˈsɛksəfəʊn/, U.S. /ˈsɛksəˌfoʊn/ rare.
An imaginary musical instrument resembling a saxophone and producing sexual sensations.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > imaginary musical instrument producing sexual sensations
sexophone1932
1932 A. Huxley Brave New World v. 89 The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon.
1945 V. Nabokov Real Life Sebastian Knight (new ed.) xi. 93 Physical love is but another way of saying the same thing and not a special sexophone note, which once heard is echoed in every other region of the soul.
2004 Evening Standard (Nexis) 26 Apr. a27 I was idly tonguing my Yamaha sexophone at the weekend (it's like a saxophone, except it is fitted with nipple clamps, a catheter, a car battery and a quart of lubricating jelly).
Derivatives
seˈxophonist n. rare a person who plays a sexophone.Chiefly with reference to Huxley's use (see quot. 1932).
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > imaginary musical instrument producing sexual sensations > one who plays
sexophonist1932
1932 A. Huxley Brave New World v. 88 The Sixteen Sexophonists were playing an old favourite.
1999 C. Ferns Narrating Utopia iv. 115 When Lenina and Henry Foster conclude their evening out with a trip to the Westminster Abbey Cabaret (featuring the music of Calvin Stopes and his Sixteen Sexophonists), their last, drug-enhanced dance together is described in unmistakable terms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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