virileadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈvɪrʌɪl/,

/ˈvɪrᵻl/,

/ˈvʌɪərʌɪl/,

/ˈvʌɪərᵻl/, U.S.

/ˈvɪrəl/

Forms: Also Middle English viryle, 1500s vyryll, 1500s–1700s viril (1600s -ill).

Etymology: < Old French viril or < Latin virīlis , < vir man: see -ile suffix. So French viril, Spanish viril, Portuguese viril, Italian virile.

1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a man; manly, masculine; marked by strength or force.

a. Of things, qualities, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > [adjective] > having manly virtues

virile1490

masculinec1550

masculous1619

the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > qualities of

manly?c1225

manlikec1480

virile1490

mannish1530

manful1655

manny1853

dude1879

blokeish1920

butch1949

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos ix. 36 O the fortytude viryle of wymmen, or loos & pryce of chastyte femynyne.

1604 T. Wright Succinct Philos. Declar. Clymactericall Yeeres 3 The next clymactericall yeere in them of solide and virile constitution is an 100.

1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 29 And yet the power of this grew as virile and royall, as it would acknowledge no Peere but the Parliament.

1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) iii. ii. 292 There is a virile state of vertue attainable when duty is turned into nature.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Virile Age..is the Strength and Vigour of a Man's Age, viz. from thirty to forty-five Years.

1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis viii. 175 Stammering words of an uncertain meaning, she breathed out her virile soul.

1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1859) II. lxviii. 7 It was an act not reconcileable with virile sense, on the part of either the proposers or the accepters.

1875 G. MacDonald Malcolm III. xv. 199 She punished her husband for the virile claim to greater freedom.

absolute.1876 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (1887) 407 Only the virile and heroic can fully satisfy her own nature and master it for good or evil.

b. Of dress: Denoting the attainment of man's estate; distinctively belonging to men in contrast to youths (or women).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > adult > [adjective] > adult man

manly1579

virile1603

man-growna1641

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > for specific people > for men and women > men

virile1603

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 51 Having put on your virile robe and growen to mans estate.

1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 123 One weary of her sexe, forbore not to vnwoman her selfe, by assuming not onely a virile habit, but a virago's heart.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Robe At Rome, they gave the Name Virile Robe, Toga Virilis, to a plain kind of Gown which their Youth assumed when arrived at Puberty.

1761 Acc. of Books in Ann. Reg. 298/2 Girls wore it [i.e. the prætexta] till they were married, and youths till they took the viril robe.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliv. 397 The assumption of the virile jacket and pantaloons.

2. Of persons:

a. Full of masculine energy or strength; not weak or effeminate.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > [adjective] > having manly virtues > specifically of persons

virile1512

1512 Helyas in W. J. Thoms Coll. Early Prose Romances (1828) III. 51 He semed almost a man viril in his force.

1880 Scribner's Monthly May 124/1 His instrument broke for want of a firm and even hand to use it—a virile, devoted master to prolong the strain.

1890 J. K. Hosmer Anglo-Saxon Freedom 319 All had..been disciplined and made strongly virile by that priceless polity..which had been inherited from Anglo-Saxon ancestors.

1893 J. Strong New Era 102 The more virile a man is the more positive are his defects.

†b. Of a woman: Nubile. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [adjective] > marriageable (of woman)

viripotent1587

nubile1642

virile1648

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Manbaer, a maide that is Mariageable or ripe for a Husband, or Virill.

c. Of sex: Male.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [adjective]

malea1382

virile1697

unpetticoated1778

dude1879

1697 J. Evelyn Numismata viii. 287 A Treatise of Illustrious Women; shewing how far they surpass the Virile Sex in all sorts even of Martial undertakings and Affairs.

d. absol. as n. A virile person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > [noun]

hadc900

lifesmaneOE

maneOE

world-maneOE

ghostOE

wyeOE

lifeOE

son of manOE

wightc1175

soulc1180

earthmanc1225

foodc1225

person?c1225

creaturec1300

bodyc1325

beera1382

poppetc1390

flippera1400

wat1399

corsec1400

mortal?a1425

deadly?c1450

hec1450

personagec1485

wretcha1500

human1509

mundane1509

member1525

worma1556

homo1561

piece of flesh1567

sconce1567

squirrel?1567

fellow creature1572

Adamite1581

bloat herringa1586

earthling1593

mother's child1594

stuff1598

a piece of flesh1600

wagtail1607

bosom1608

fragment1609

boots1623

tick1631

worthy1649

earthlies1651

snap1653

pippin1665

being1666

personal1678

personality1678

sooterkin1680

party1686

worldling1687

human being1694

water-wagtail1694

noddle1705

human subject1712

piece of work1713

somebody1724

terrestrial1726

anybody1733

individual1742

character1773

cuss1775

jig1781

thingy1787

bod1788

curse1790

his nabs1790

article1796

Earthite1814

critter1815

potato1815

personeityc1816

nibs1821

somebody1826

tellurian1828

case1832

tangata1840

prawn1845

nigger1848

nut1856

Snooks1860

mug1865

outfit1867

to deliver the goods1870

hairpin1879

baby1880

possum1894

hot tamale1895

babe1900

jobbie1902

virile1903

cup of tea1908

skin1914

pisser1918

number1919

job1927

apple1928

mush1936

face1944

jong1956

naked ape1965

oke1970

punter1975

1903 Critic (N.Y.) Oct. 374/1 It is the fashion of the ‘viriles’—to coin a word—to stigmatize the poetry..as ‘decadent.’

3. virile member (or yard), the male organ of generation. Also virile part.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis

weapona1000

tarsec1000

pintleOE

cock?c1335

pillicock?c1335

yard1379

arrowa1382

looma1400

vergea1400

instrumentc1405

fidcocka1475

privya1500

virile member (or yard)?1541

prickc1555

tool1563

pillock1568

penis1578

codpiece1584

needle1592

bauble1593

dildo1597

nag1598

virility1598

ferret1599

rubigo?a1600

Jack1604

mentula1605

virge1608

prependent1610

flute1611

other thing1628

engine1634

manhood1640

cod1650

quillity1653

rammer1653

runnion1655

pego1663

sex1664

propagator1670

membrum virile1672

nervea1680

whore-pipe1684

Roger1689

pudding1693

handle?1731

machine1749

shaft1772

jock1790

poker1811

dickyc1815

Johnny?1833

organ1833

intromittent apparatus1836

root1846

Johnson1863

Peter1870

John Henry1874

dickc1890

dingusc1890

John Thomasc1890

old fellowc1890

Aaron's rod1891

dingle-dangle1893

middle leg1896

mole1896

pisser1896

micky1898

baby-maker1902

old man1902

pecker1902

pizzle1902

willy1905

ding-dong1906

mickey1909

pencil1916

dingbatc1920

plonkerc1920

Johna1922

whangera1922

knob1922

tube1922

ding1926

pee-pee1927

prong1927

pud1927

hose1928

whang1928

dong1930

putz1934

porkc1935

wiener1935

weenie1939

length1949

tadger1949

winkle1951

dinger1953

winky1954

dork1961

virilia1962

rig1964

wee-wee1964

Percy1965

meat tool1966

chopper1967

schlong1967

swipe1967

chode1968

trouser snake1968

ding-a-ling1969

dipstick1970

tonk1970

noonies1972

salami1977

monkey1978

langer1983

wanker1987

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Kj It is the yerde vyryll, that is the cultyuer and labourer of the felde of mankynde.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 89 But it is good to leaue as many of the vaines and nerues of the virile member vntouched and whole as may be.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 135 Frico,..whose image they devise and pourtray with a great viril member.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Penis The Member, or virile Member,..one of the principal Organs of Generation in the Male Kind.

1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860)

1967 W. Styron Confessions Nat Turner iii. 372 I felt my virile part stiffen again beneath my trousers.

Derivatives

ˈvirileness n. ‘manhood, manliness’.

ΚΠ

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	virile
释义	virileadj.n. Brit. /ˈvɪrʌɪl/, /ˈvɪrᵻl/, /ˈvʌɪərʌɪl/, /ˈvʌɪərᵻl/, U.S. /ˈvɪrəl/ Forms: Also Middle English viryle, 1500s vyryll, 1500s–1700s viril (1600s -ill). Etymology: < Old French viril or < Latin virīlis , < vir man: see -ile suffix. So French viril, Spanish viril, Portuguese viril, Italian virile. 1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a man; manly, masculine; marked by strength or force. a. Of things, qualities, etc. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [adjective] > having manly virtues virile1490 masculinec1550 masculous1619 the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > qualities of manly?c1225 manlikec1480 virile1490 mannish1530 manful1655 manny1853 dude1879 blokeish1920 butch1949 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos ix. 36 O the fortytude viryle of wymmen, or loos & pryce of chastyte femynyne. 1604 T. Wright Succinct Philos. Declar. Clymactericall Yeeres 3 The next clymactericall yeere in them of solide and virile constitution is an 100. 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 29 And yet the power of this grew as virile and royall, as it would acknowledge no Peere but the Parliament. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) iii. ii. 292 There is a virile state of vertue attainable when duty is turned into nature. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Virile Age..is the Strength and Vigour of a Man's Age, viz. from thirty to forty-five Years. 1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis viii. 175 Stammering words of an uncertain meaning, she breathed out her virile soul. 1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1859) II. lxviii. 7 It was an act not reconcileable with virile sense, on the part of either the proposers or the accepters. 1875 G. MacDonald Malcolm III. xv. 199 She punished her husband for the virile claim to greater freedom. absolute.1876 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (1887) 407 Only the virile and heroic can fully satisfy her own nature and master it for good or evil. b. Of dress: Denoting the attainment of man's estate; distinctively belonging to men in contrast to youths (or women). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [adjective] > adult man manly1579 virile1603 man-growna1641 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > for specific people > for men and women > men virile1603 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 51 Having put on your virile robe and growen to mans estate. 1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 123 One weary of her sexe, forbore not to vnwoman her selfe, by assuming not onely a virile habit, but a virago's heart. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Robe At Rome, they gave the Name Virile Robe, Toga Virilis, to a plain kind of Gown which their Youth assumed when arrived at Puberty. 1761 Acc. of Books in Ann. Reg. 298/2 Girls wore it [i.e. the prætexta] till they were married, and youths till they took the viril robe. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliv. 397 The assumption of the virile jacket and pantaloons. 2. Of persons: a. Full of masculine energy or strength; not weak or effeminate. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [adjective] > having manly virtues > specifically of persons virile1512 1512 Helyas in W. J. Thoms Coll. Early Prose Romances (1828) III. 51 He semed almost a man viril in his force. 1880 Scribner's Monthly May 124/1 His instrument broke for want of a firm and even hand to use it—a virile, devoted master to prolong the strain. 1890 J. K. Hosmer Anglo-Saxon Freedom 319 All had..been disciplined and made strongly virile by that priceless polity..which had been inherited from Anglo-Saxon ancestors. 1893 J. Strong New Era 102 The more virile a man is the more positive are his defects. †b. Of a woman: Nubile. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [adjective] > marriageable (of woman) viripotent1587 nubile1642 virile1648 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Manbaer, a maide that is Mariageable or ripe for a Husband, or Virill. c. Of sex: Male. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [adjective] malea1382 virile1697 unpetticoated1778 dude1879 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata viii. 287 A Treatise of Illustrious Women; shewing how far they surpass the Virile Sex in all sorts even of Martial undertakings and Affairs. d. absol. as n. A virile person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] hadc900 lifesmaneOE maneOE world-maneOE ghostOE wyeOE lifeOE son of manOE wightc1175 soulc1180 earthmanc1225 foodc1225 person?c1225 creaturec1300 bodyc1325 beera1382 poppetc1390 flippera1400 wat1399 corsec1400 mortal?a1425 deadly?c1450 hec1450 personagec1485 wretcha1500 human1509 mundane1509 member1525 worma1556 homo1561 piece of flesh1567 sconce1567 squirrel?1567 fellow creature1572 Adamite1581 bloat herringa1586 earthling1593 mother's child1594 stuff1598 a piece of flesh1600 wagtail1607 bosom1608 fragment1609 boots1623 tick1631 worthy1649 earthlies1651 snap1653 pippin1665 being1666 personal1678 personality1678 sooterkin1680 party1686 worldling1687 human being1694 water-wagtail1694 noddle1705 human subject1712 piece of work1713 somebody1724 terrestrial1726 anybody1733 individual1742 character1773 cuss1775 jig1781 thingy1787 bod1788 curse1790 his nabs1790 article1796 Earthite1814 critter1815 potato1815 personeityc1816 nibs1821 somebody1826 tellurian1828 case1832 tangata1840 prawn1845 nigger1848 nut1856 Snooks1860 mug1865 outfit1867 to deliver the goods1870 hairpin1879 baby1880 possum1894 hot tamale1895 babe1900 jobbie1902 virile1903 cup of tea1908 skin1914 pisser1918 number1919 job1927 apple1928 mush1936 face1944 jong1956 naked ape1965 oke1970 punter1975 1903 Critic (N.Y.) Oct. 374/1 It is the fashion of the ‘viriles’—to coin a word—to stigmatize the poetry..as ‘decadent.’ 3. virile member (or yard), the male organ of generation. Also virile part. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis weapona1000 tarsec1000 pintleOE cock?c1335 pillicock?c1335 yard1379 arrowa1382 looma1400 vergea1400 instrumentc1405 fidcocka1475 privya1500 virile member (or yard)?1541 prickc1555 tool1563 pillock1568 penis1578 codpiece1584 needle1592 bauble1593 dildo1597 nag1598 virility1598 ferret1599 rubigo?a1600 Jack1604 mentula1605 virge1608 prependent1610 flute1611 other thing1628 engine1634 manhood1640 cod1650 quillity1653 rammer1653 runnion1655 pego1663 sex1664 propagator1670 membrum virile1672 nervea1680 whore-pipe1684 Roger1689 pudding1693 handle?1731 machine1749 shaft1772 jock1790 poker1811 dickyc1815 Johnny?1833 organ1833 intromittent apparatus1836 root1846 Johnson1863 Peter1870 John Henry1874 dickc1890 dingusc1890 John Thomasc1890 old fellowc1890 Aaron's rod1891 dingle-dangle1893 middle leg1896 mole1896 pisser1896 micky1898 baby-maker1902 old man1902 pecker1902 pizzle1902 willy1905 ding-dong1906 mickey1909 pencil1916 dingbatc1920 plonkerc1920 Johna1922 whangera1922 knob1922 tube1922 ding1926 pee-pee1927 prong1927 pud1927 hose1928 whang1928 dong1930 putz1934 porkc1935 wiener1935 weenie1939 length1949 tadger1949 winkle1951 dinger1953 winky1954 dork1961 virilia1962 rig1964 wee-wee1964 Percy1965 meat tool1966 chopper1967 schlong1967 swipe1967 chode1968 trouser snake1968 ding-a-ling1969 dipstick1970 tonk1970 noonies1972 salami1977 monkey1978 langer1983 wanker1987 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Kj It is the yerde vyryll, that is the cultyuer and labourer of the felde of mankynde. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 89 But it is good to leaue as many of the vaines and nerues of the virile member vntouched and whole as may be. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 135 Frico,..whose image they devise and pourtray with a great viril member. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Penis The Member, or virile Member,..one of the principal Organs of Generation in the Male Kind. 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1967 W. Styron Confessions Nat Turner iii. 372 I felt my virile part stiffen again beneath my trousers. Derivatives ˈvirileness n. ‘manhood, manliness’. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1490
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