Priapically

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 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.”"

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"“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.”"

Etymology

From priapic + -ally.

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