priapus

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This priapus-worship, then, is older than history.

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  1. noun Greek & Roman Mythology The god of procreation, guardian of gardens and vineyards, and personification of the erect phallus.
  2. noun An image of this god, often used as a scarecrow in ancient gardens.
  3. noun A representation of a phallus.

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  • Taking up the box of cream, he first anointed the head of his own impatient priapus, then did the same to Thomas' fundament, working his two fingers well in it, which made the groom's prick throb and stiffen enormously. —  The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies
  • How tight and warm it was to his excited priapus, which answered by a thrust to every heave of the parson's bottom as he fucked the dear girl beneath him Mamma also, not to be left out of the game, mounted on the long couch, and lying on her back in front of her daughter, opened her thighs so as to embrace Ethel's face and present her longing cunt for her to suck. —  The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies
  • This priapus-worship, then, is older than history. —  Following the Equator, Part 5
  • But it must be based upon popular ignorance: the private parts of the monkey although they erect stiffly, like the priapus of Osiris when swearing upon his Phallus, are not of the girth sufficient to produce that friction which is essential to a woman's pleasure. —  Arabian nights. English
  • A mercury cannot be made of every wood (bvt priapus may). —  Bacon is Shake-Speare
 

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  1. Latin Priāpus, from Greek Priāpos.
 

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