Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a phallus.
- adj. Of or relating to the cult of the phallus as an embodiment of generative power: phallic worship.
- adj. 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the phallus or the generative principle in nature: as, phallic worship.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the phallus, or to phallism.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to a phallus especially as an embodiment of generative power
- adj. resembling or being a phallus
Etymologies
- From phallus ("penis") + -ic. (Wiktionary)
- Greek phallikos, from phallos, phallus; see phallus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And the manner in which political manhood gets displayed is tiresomely predictable: macho chest beating, posing with the fetish objects of anxious masculinity (trucks, big machines, and even bigger weapons), humiliating your opponent with castrating insults, calling into question his or her ability to be tough, ruthless, and merciless with the designated enemy of the moment -- in short, phallic strutting.”
Stephen Ducat: Revenge of the Wimp Factor: The Ironies of Proving Manhood in the Democratic Primary
“No problem acknowledging also that among the many different traditions, practices and stories that have fused and sometimes not even touched and just hung around together in what we now call Hinduism, there is room, and maybe even some intellectual and spiritual value in some contexts, for what is still quite crudely called the "phallic" perspective.”
The Huffington Post: Vamsee Juluri: Lord Shiva And The Economist: A New Low For Journalism
“They occur in all languages, and hint how readily the worship of fire glided into that of the reproductive principle, into extravagances of chastity and lewdness, into the shocking orgies of the so-called phallic worship.”
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
“The manufacturers of sex toys and virtual magic swords are presumably trying to achieve a similar kind of phallic appearance, but rarely has it been this blatant.”
“Get yourself covered from head to toe with drilling mud and hydraulic fluid and you won't think there's much "phallic" about offshore drilling.”
Camille Paglia has an "increasing sense of forboding" about the election.
“Jen, did you intentionally skip the um... "phallic" nature of the last frog?”
“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.”
Air Guitar Championships Semi-Invisibly Rock Los Angeles | EW.com
“In case you don't read in English that much (other than the ultimately-lame lyrics of Britney Spears 'songs), the word' phallic 'means' related to (and/or shapes resembling) the full erection of the male penis '.”
“For some reason at one end of the beach there is a cave containing some kind of phallic shrine whuich may be due to the phallic shaped rock towering off the coastline!”
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“The mayor of a Maltese village has called on the government to remove a 'phallic' statue ahead of a visit from the Pope this weekend.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phallic’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Sound Sex
taciturn, deflower, recursive, parapraxis, comitative, atelic, awkward, eccentric, libidinous, astereognosis, aloof, moonglade and 50 more...
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Fetishes, Erotica & Descriptive Smut
Sexually charged words, or those that could be. Sexual innuendos are mighty welcome.
lubricious, turgid, tumescent, tumid, feverish, mons, mons veneris, prurient, ophidian, houri, cyprian, licentious and 42 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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words that I find intimidating.
It is what it says it is.
Forgive me, I'm new to this...anachronistic, schadenfreude, adversity, phallic, convoluted, straightforward, stoicism, baignoir, exaltation
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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-ic ending
Words ending in ic, tic or nic.
clastic, elastic, caustic, spastic, frantic, lactic, moronic, ironic, panic, doric, diplomatic, bureaucratic and 202 more...
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old faves
ones I already liked
vacuole, organelle, debauchle, voluptuous, spry, cattywampus, obscure, occlude, occult, celtic, voracious, ardently and 133 more...
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Favorites
machiavellian, mercurial, deus ex machina, synecdoche, litotes, phallic, freudian, metonymy, chrestomathy, falsifiable, gestalt, truthiness and 211 more...
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elizacole's Words
isomorphic, endemic, tmesis, fillip, antedate, avoirdupois, jeremiad, hypnagogic, antediluvian, fuck, reification, raconteur and 251 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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the smut-list
celibacy, rubber, coitus, foreplay, phallus, bukkake, cunnilingus, frottage, bugger, erotica, condom, booby and 63 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for phallic.
chained_bear In conversation last night about this page, the links on it--particularly this year's winner--and the lovely pictures linked to bloomin' dildo, the term dikebana was coined. Jul 31, 2008
sakhalinskii Isn't whether something is wide or long dependent on what angle you're looking at it from? Jul 31, 2008
dontcry Fingers, legs, arms, hairs, intestines, highways, spaghetti, skis... Jul 31, 2008
bilby A rolling pin? Jul 31, 2008
chained_bear Lots of things are longer than they are wide and aren't phallic. I can think of one in particular that, if you have one, would pretty much guarantee you are female. Jul 31, 2008
reesetee But isn't it also wider than it is long? Jul 31, 2008
sionnach Just apply the phallic criterion: "is it longer than it is wide?"; if the answer is affirmative, then yes. Jul 31, 2008
sakhalinskii Can the internet be considered phallic? Jul 31, 2008
arby c_b, your comment was cut off on the home page just at the most suggestive place - "hard". Ha ha!
Yes, I have nothing substantive to add to the discussion. Jul 31, 2008
chained_bear I have to wonder if the designer was trying to put one over on us, assuming that most people wouldn't immediately say "Gosh, that looks like a hard ___, ___ing into a _____!!" Because, truly, he/she could NOT have POSSIBLY ...
Well...
If he/she didn't see that, I feel sorry for him/her/them/it. Jul 31, 2008
sionnach corrected phallic logo awards link
Great 1920s transvestite oral sex action. Snort! Jul 31, 2008
skipvia I know what you mean, Pro. What could the designer have been thinking?
*better not answer that* Jul 31, 2008
Prolagus It's the one I was talking about! Jul 31, 2008
skipvia Don't miss this one. I think it's supposed to be a pagoda... Jul 31, 2008
Prolagus Still some problems with links, froggy :-D
PLEASE tell me the last one is fake. PLEASE. Jul 31, 2008
frogapplause Phallic Logo Awards:
http://www.b3ta.com/features/phalliclogoawards/
Jul 30, 2008