This week’s theme
Words derived from body parts

This week’s words
iron-hearted
pugnacious
ithyphallic
chicken-livered
hysteric

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ith-uh-FAL-ik)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Lewd or salacious.
2. Having an erect phallus.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin ithyphallicus, from Greek ithyphallikos, from ithyphallos, from ithys (straight) + phallos (phallus). Earliest documented use: 1795.

USAGE:

“All you have to do is say how totally upright, in the non-ithyphallic sense, your admirable ex has always been.”
Frederic Raphael; Fame and Fortune; JR Books; 2007.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: