phallic

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Nicci recommends you strap a silicone dildo or a phallic-looking cucumber to the end of your bed, to make sure that by the time you get lucky with a real man's thing, he's just wild for your cooking.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a phallus.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the cult of the phallus as an embodiment of generative power: phallic worship.
  3. adjective Of or relating to the third stage of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory, from about ages three to six, during which gratification is focused on sensations associated with the genital organs. The phallic stage is preceded by the anal stage and followed by the latency period.

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  • Up ahead, Elizabeth made a right at the big semi-phallic rock and there, on the right, was our tree. —  tell No one
  • While I was busy losing my mind and making phallic-shaped pancakes, he was in Bologna watching soft core porn on regular tv. —  Evil Beet Gossip
  • "I think the phallic nature of the guitar generally makes men gravitate towards it as a kind of phallic extension," Türoque says of this gender divide. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Tell me that guy at Virginia Tech wasn't just using his gun as a phallic substitute -- a substitute for all the manhood he wasn't able to access without it. —  Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet
  • Those who did remove the banana skin found a pink, phallic, peeled banana beneath. —  TPN :: GDay World
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  1. Greek phallikos, from phallos, phallus; see phallus.

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  1. = French phallique, from Greek φαλλικός, from φαλλός, phallus: see phallus.
 

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/ˈfælɪk/
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