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ithyphallic
Jan. 10th, 2006 07:17 amithyphallic - 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.
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.
