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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

priapically en · ADV

Etymology

From priapic + -ally.

Meanings

  1. In a priapic manner.
    • “Watching movies simply is a promiscuous experience,” she writes, fawning over Antonio Banderas ’s rear end (“a priapically preening ... baboon backside”), Gene Hackman ’s “peculiar crinkled hair” and Steve Buscemi ’s mouth, a kiss from which she’d pay “at least, let’s say, a hundred — no, no, no, let’s say, two hundred and twenty quid.” 2007 July 8, Alexandra Jacobs, “Movie Love”, in New York Times:

Forms

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most priapically Degree=Sup lexicographic
more priapically Degree=Cmp lexicographic