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priapic

adjective

pri·​a·​pic prī-ˈā-pik How to pronounce priapic (audio) -ˈa- How to pronounce priapic (audio)
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: relating to or preoccupied with virility or male sexual excitement

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Who, apart from the most puritanical and earnest among us, isn’t gripped by the dalliances of an older, powerful, priapic man and a younger, attractive, highly ambitious woman? Lara Prendergast, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021 But despite his waxworks appearance, pre-Weinsteinian penchant for priapic innuendo and lingering criminal trials, Mr. Berlusconi, a former Italian prime minister, is no longer the joke of European politics. Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018 Primitive humans once celebrated May 1 with fertility rituals — think maidens with garlands dancing around a priapic maypole. John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2018 There is the occasional priapic silliness and the title is unwieldy if not awful. The Economist, 13 July 2017

Word History

Etymology

Latin priapus lecher, from Priapus

First Known Use

1786, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of priapic was in 1786

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