ithyphallic

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ithyphallic - adj., having an erect penis.


Usually used of art -- especially ancient art (for ex., the boundary markers in ancient Greece, called herms, were pillars with heads and a phallus on the side -- and then there's all those statues of Priapus in the gardens). By extension, though, in Victorian times this came to mean grossly indecent, lewd, obscene. From Greek ithys, straight, + phallus, penis.

---L.

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And having a penis shaped like a fish would be, of course, icthyphallic.

---L.