phallus

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To the Italian the phallus is the symbol of individual creative immortality, to each man his own Godhead.

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  1. noun Anatomy The penis.
  2. noun Anatomy The sexually undifferentiated tissue in an embryo that becomes the penis or clitoris.
  3. noun A representation of the penis and testes as an embodiment of generative power.
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  • Unlike his hands, his phallus was warm; rigid with blood, erect and straining. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
  • The gray steps surrounding the phallus were crowded, as ever, with sweet-eyed hippies, leather-jacketed drug dealers and mentally deranged youngsters who were hugging each other for company. —  van de Wetering - [Grijpstra-De Gier 03] The Corpse on the Dike
  • And how the hell does that info-phallus, stolen from the Daleks that appeared in Voyage of the Damned or the Christopher Eccleston era, anyway? —  Behind the Sofa - The Collaborative Doctor Who Blog
  • Hot dogs, cannons, skyscrapers, or trains: tasty, scary, swaggering, stereotypical -- a phallus is still just a phallus. —  open source sex
  • The second wave knows that the phallus is only a semblance and, furthermore, one not to be taken seriously: it is the de-complexified femininity. —  E-nough!
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Late Latin, from Greek phallos; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, from Greek φαλλός: see def. 2.
 

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/ˈfæləs/
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