单词 | phallic |
释义 | phallicadj. 1. Of or relating to a phallus or phallicism; representing or suggestive of a phallus, fertility, male dominance or (usually male) sexuality in general. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > generation of nature phallic1690 phallical1900 the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [adjective] > penis > erect tooled1577 phallic1690 phalloid1858 erect1897 phallical1900 1690 W. Baxter tr. Plutarch Of Isis & Osiris in M. Morgan et al. tr. Plutarch Morals IV. 108 When they keep the Feast of the Pamylia, which is a Phallick [Gk. φαλλικὴν] or Priapejan one..they expose to view, and carry about a certain Image of a Man with a threefold Privity. 1742 W. Clarke & W. Bowyer tr. Vossius in tr. J. Trapp Lect. Poetry 243 Under the former Head we may reckon the Dithyrambics of Bacchus, Hymns to the Gods, and Panegyrics upon Heroes. Under the second Iambics, and Phallic Verses [L. Phallica]. 1789 T. Twining tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry 72 Those Phallic songs, which, in many cities, remain still in use. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxvii. 446 The exuberant revelry of the phallic festival and procession. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xliii. 44 Myriads of loose white flints in bulbous, cusped, and phallic shapes. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Let. 15 Mar. (1962) II. 1046 It is a nice and tender phallic novel. 1968 M. Ellmann Thinking about Women ii. 46 It is through this identification that phallic criticism regularly and rapidly shifts from writing by women, which can be dismissed as innocuous, to their vicious influence upon writing by men. 1977 Spare Rib Sept. 13/2 Now we [sc. women] can have the phallic freedoms to screw where and when we want. 2002 Maxim June 166/1 The most phallic car ever created [sc. the Jaguar E-type], it epitomised an era when centuries of sexual repression were washed away by a tsunami of sheer horniness. 2. Psychoanalysis. Of, relating to, or designating the genital phase of psychosexual development, esp. in males. ΚΠ 1927 Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 8 468 Freud postulated a ‘phallic’ stage in female development corresponding with that in the male. 1935 M. Balint Primary Love & Psycho-anal. Technique (1952) iii. 56 The phenomena of the phallic period: belief in the non-existence of the female genital organs..or in the existence of mothers with a phallus. 1952 C. Thompson Psychoanal. iii. 69 A phallic character comes from sublimation of the phallic stage. Such a person is..insolent, domineering, and aggressive. 1995 K. D. Browne & C. R. Hollin in C. Hollin Contemp. Psychol. v. 86 The first three years are characterized by desires (libido) of the mouth (oral stage), the anus (the anal stage), and the penis (the phallic stage). Compounds C1. phallic-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1896 A. Beardsley Let. c3 Dec. (1970) 223 Yes everything is phallic shaped except Symons's prick. 1964 P. F. Anson Bishops at Large ix. 358 The ‘forces’ and ‘vibrations’ within this phallic-shaped building. 1991 Sky Warriors 1 ii. 29/1 The entire flee..had been retrofitted with the retractable belly cradles and requisite wiring for the phallic-shaped device. C2. phallic-centred adj. = phallocentric adj. ΚΠ 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex iii. 23 Males are very phallic-centred. phallic symbol n. something representative or suggestive of a phallus, esp. as taken to symbolize fertility, (usually male) sexuality, male dominance, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > phallus phallic symbol1852 1852 E. B. Lytton Athens, Rise & Fall 17 Herodotus..asserts, that Melampus first introduced the Phallic symbol among the Greeks. 1923 Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 4 383 Charlie Chaplin as phallic symbol. 2004 Pioneer Press (SE. Minnesota) (Nexis) 21 Jan. 5 e Long before Freud, the unicorn's horn was a phallic symbol. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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