Priapiann.adj.
/prʌɪˈapɪən/, U.S. /praɪˈæpiən/ A. n. rare.
A lascivious person; a worshipper of Priapus.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis > erect
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1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 23 The Salaminian titillations, Which tickle vp our leud Priapians.
1989 G. Snare Mystification G. Chapman iii. 90 The masses of public priapians are at both the festival of Venus and Adonis at Sestos in Sestiad I and at the marriage of Hymen and Eucharis in V.
B. adj. rare before 20th cent.
= priapic adj. Cf. Priapean adj. 1.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > of or relating to Priapus
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1727 T. Uvedale Death-bed Display'd 22 Your Plays, your Opera's, and Priapian Feast, Where muffled Lewdness is the Nightly Guest.
1859 J. Martin tr. J. H. Kurtz Hist. Old Covenant III. 423 Daumer has a great deal to say in favour of this Priapian ass-worship.
1934 C. Gray in B. Smith P. Warlock iii. 57 He could write better rigmarole, nonsense verses and limericks, Priapian and other, than any man I have ever known.
1971 L. E. Taylor Pastoral & Anti-pastoral Patterns in J. Updike's Fiction viii. 123 Priapian and Eleusinian cults rank among the oldest of the world's religions.
2000 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 10 Jan. 18 The priapian actor lusts and thrusts at so many actresses and ex-lovers that you want to turn a hose on him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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