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Priapic

Definition: Priapic

Priapic

Adjective

1. Overly concerned with masculinity and male sexuality; "priapic episodes"; "priapic victories".

2. Resembling or being a phallus; "a phallic symbol"; "phallic eroticism"; "priapic figurines".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Priapic

Synonym: phallic (adj). (additional references)

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Image Slideshow: Priapic

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Usage Frequency: Priapic

"Priapic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Priapic" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)92.31%12101,599
Noun (singular)7.69%1339,140
                    Total100.00%13N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Priapic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

priapic

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Priapic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-p-p-r"

-1 letter: priapi.

-2 letters: carpi.

-3 letters: carp, crap, pair, pica.

-4 letters: air, arc, cap, car, pac, pap, par, pia, pic, pip, rap, ria, rip.

-5 letters: ai, ar, pa, pi.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-p-p-r"
 

+2 letters: principal, principia.

 

+3 letters: cypripedia, epigraphic, participle, principals.

 

+4 letters: coprincipal, coprophilia, participant, participate, participial, participles, peripatetic, pilocarpine, precipitant, precipitate, principally.

 

+5 letters: apparatchiki, apperceiving, appreciating, appreciation, appreciative, apprenticing, coprincipals, coprophiliac, coprophilias, epigraphical, participants, participated, participates, participator, peripatetics, periphrastic, perspicacity, pictographic, pilocarpines, plagiotropic, planispheric, polariscopic, precipitable, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitants, precipitated, precipitates, precipitator, principality, subprincipal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Priapic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 69 61 70 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01101001 01100001 01110000 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#105 &#97 &#112 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0069 0061 0070 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50847567827569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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