Definitions for Priapic

Priapic pri·ap·ic

Spelling: [prahy-ap-ik]
IPA: /praɪˈæp ɪk/

Priapic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in Priapic (aciippr).

Definitions for Priapic

adjective

  1. (sometimes initial capital letter) of or relating to Priapus; phallic.
  2. characterized by or emphasizing a phallus:
  3. (of an image) suggestive of or resembling a phallus by its shape.
  4. exaggeratedly concerned with masculinity and male sexuality.

Origin of Priapic

First recorded in 1780-90; Priap(us) + -ic

Examples for Priapic

The association of the goat with priapic ceremonies has already been mentioned.

These two works together—the centuries of sonnets against Aretino, and the priapic lucubrations—obtained a wide celebrity.

Small gods of clay are made in priapic attitudes before which the natives worship.

Married off to Henry Thrale, a rich, priapic brewer, she bore him twelve children, of whom only four survived into adult life.

This fictitious character is represented in priapic attitudes in a number of illustrations of old English ballads.

This was a semi-literary club of profligates with the priapic emblems for its ensign.

Consult index for agitated fear of aconite, melancholy of muriatic, priapic pulsatilla.

The priapic and generative influences of Frey are only indicated by a curious tradition mentioned.

He has observed idols in priapic attitudes, rudely carved in wood, and others made of clay.

Word Value for Priapic
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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