Crossword clues for priapic
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"phallic," 1786, with -ic + Priapus (Greek Priapos), son of Dionysus and Aphrodite, the god who personified male reproductive power. His name is of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
a. 1 phallic. 2 (Excessively) masculine; excessively concerned with masculinity.
WordNet
adj. overly concerned with masculinity and male sexuality; "priapic episodes"; "priapic victories"
resembling or being a phallus; "a phallic symbol"; "phallic eroticism"; "priapic figurines" [syn: phallic]
Usage examples of "priapic".
Reports emerged testifying to male dogs which, upon dosing with cocaine, became uncontrollably priapic, of bitches suddenly becoming receptive to amorous advances from all comers.
The city was a layered silhouette, an intricate fading chimneyscape, slate roofs bracing each other obliquely below the plaited towers of churches to obscure gods, the huge priapic vents of factories spewing dirty smoke and burning off excess energy, monolithic towerblocks like vast concrete gravestones, the rough down of parkland.
Lying between the sheets, or propped at my side during long and anxious journeys in the Fiasco, or seated across the table in the deep lees of high-tab dinners, Selina has frequently refreshed me with tales of insult and violation from her childhood and teenage years a musk-breathing, toffee-offering sicko on the common, the toolshed interrogations of sweat-soaked parkies, some lumbering retard in the alley or the lane, right up to the narcissist photographers and priapic prop-boys who used to cruise her at work, and now the scowling punks, soccer trogs and bus-stop boogies malevolently lining the streets and more or less constantly pinching her ass or flicking her tits and generally making no bones about the things they need to do.
The knight was not the hideous, priapic god who had cavorted at the mass, but the spirit of the forest, the deer god as generations before had known him, with warm, brown eyes—yet also a man wearing an antlered helm.
Molinari, as all citizens of Terra knew, lived an ascetic life, yet oddly intersticed with infrequent interludes of priapic, little-revealed sybaritic indulgence.
Both those forms resembling priapic fungi and those resembling labyrinthiform ooecia were ceaselessly active, their colours flaring and fading according to their flaccidity or engorgement.
They sold smut-film subscriptions to pervs and the Great White Priapic all over L.
At the sight of his priapic instrument, which was grotesquely large and covered with warts, Twisk became frantic with fear.