Meaning & use
Priapic
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Relating to or suggestive of an erect phallus; excessively or aggressively concerned with masculine sexual potency.
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Critics described the film's hero as a priapic figure obsessed with proving his virility.
The statue's priapic imagery reflected ancient fertility symbolism.
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The word derives from Priapus, the Greek and Roman god of fertility, often depicted with exaggerated genitalia; it now appears mainly in literary and cultural criticism.
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