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Etymologies
- yoni + -ic, from Sanskrit योनि (yoni). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Coraline, given a magic vagina by the lesbians, is able to see through the illusions of the world and can easily defeat the impotent Other Father who is revealed as a hungry pumpkin, another yonic symbol.”
“Created by a member of the Seattle office of the National Council of Jewish Women's to publicize performances of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues, the Seattle Times refused to run the yonic ad unless it was altered, with the VP of advertising claiming, "The artwork was something we didn't feel was appropriate for our audience.”
“Nana, virgin mother of the savior Attis, conceived him by eating either a pomegranate seed or an almond, another yonic symbol.”
“Aphrodite's dove, that other yonic symbol, hovered above the scene.”
“Her yonic emblem appeared not only as the French fleu-de-lis but also as the Irish shamrock, which was not originally Irish but a sacred symbol among Indus Valley people some 6000 years before the Christian era.”
“Okay, so was the circle of life bit just one huge yonic symbol?”
“(On second thought, maybe the vowels aren't excessive, considering that vowels do possess a decidedly yonic quality, particularly when contrasted with the testosterone flavor of most consonants.)”
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“Even the massive heaps of old tires that complete the deadened milieu seem like wrinkly, anti-yonic symbols.”
“Now, Boise has its own indie rock supergroup -- with a winkingly yonic twist.”
“This was a sport unconcerned by ungritted stairwells and instead drawn deep into the Lakeside cave towards the yonic heart of the board with its triple-top G-spot.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yonic’.
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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delightful descriptors
petrichor, omphaloskepsis, ouroboros, oneiric, flaneur, saunter, dishabituation, fractalization, eudemony, phosphorescence, holographic, umwelt and 136 more...
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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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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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fitting words
a list of words from the indo european root ar- and variations : to fit together
ambry, rede, coarctate, anarthrous, artiodactyl, exordium, harmony, army, armoire, arm, armada, armadillo and 349 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 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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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Women
Words about us
virago, maenad, peri, odalisque, succubus, coquette, demimonde, nyotaimori, epicene, mons veneris, fricatrice, parturition and 14 more...
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Lust
SEXy words
cocotte, strumpet, harlot, quean, concupiscence, orgiastic, succubus, odalisque, paramour, quim, tumid, tumescent and 68 more...
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Ladies' Night
girl, lady, madame, miss, missy, woman, dame, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, grandmother and 50 more...
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Fun words
shit accelerant, highfalutin, queue, gymnosophy, adhocracy, lucubration, amphigory, vernalagnia, frabjous, saxify, sesquipedalian, basorexia and 44 more...
Tweets
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BrainyBabe Shells are classic symbols of the yoni -- think Venus on the half-shell, the slippery flesh of bivalves, the iridescent mother of pearl gleam that coats their inner surface. Dec 25, 2008
whichbe I just caught this thread. This might be obvious, but an example of a yonic symbol would be anything rounded and open--the 'Omega' sign, an 'O', a opening to a tunnel, etc. It's intentionally vague, of course, just like a phallic symbol is interpreted as basically anything that's stick-like. Sometimes it's just rounded, not even open--some consider a dome shape to be yonic in the same way some see skyscrapers to be phallic. It might be interesting to note that a lot of both religious and capital buildings seem to mysteriously contain both (stick-atop-dome).
With symbolism like this my initial reflex is to roll my eyes, thinking about grade schoolers making immature, finger-in-hole gestures. But quite a lot of psychology has shown that these sorts of symbols (and a host of many others) do play a part in a sort of unconscious communication in the mind. Dec 24, 2008
Prolagus Although orchid is a word of Greek origin meaning testicle. Jul 17, 2008
she Yonic symbols have to rely on detail more than silhouette, I think. Georgia O'Keefe's work and orchids come to mind. Jul 17, 2008
johnmperry cf yoni Jul 17, 2008
bilby Sounds very Monty Python. Jun 30, 2008
pterodactyl My college friends and I came up with an informative song called "A Thing's A Phallic Symbol If It's Longer Than It's Wide" that we used to sing boisterously on Saturday nights. Thanks in part to this song, I have no trouble recognizing phallic symbols. But I don't think I could recognize a yonic symbol.
What makes something yonic? Is being circular enough? Or does it have to be concave? Jun 30, 2008
deliasailed This one needs to be used more, I think. Jun 30, 2008
sionnach The female equivalent of phallic. Nov 8, 2007