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adjective
1.
of or pertaining to the phallus carried in ancient festivals of Bacchus.
2.
grossly indecent; obscene.
3.
Classical Prosody. noting or pertaining to any of several meters employed in hymns sung in Bacchic processions.
noun
4.
a poem in ithyphallic meter.
5.
an indecent poem.
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Ithyphallic
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ithyphallic
1614, "poem in ithyphallic meter," from Gk. ithys "straight" + phallos "erect penis" (see phallus). The meter was that of the Bacchic hymns, which were sung in the rites during which such phalluses were carried. Thus, in Victorian times, the word also meant "grossly indecent" (1864).
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