priapic

adjective

pri·​a·​pic prī-ˈā-pik  -ˈa- 

1

: phallic

2

: relating to or preoccupied with virility or male sexual excitement

Examples of priapic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This is especially true of the South Lake Union neighborhood, where Jeff Bezos has parked his mighty balls, and a new crop of office towers and hotels have sprung up around them in priapic fashion, eager to serve Amazon’s considerable needs. —Jordan Michelman, Wired News, 4 Nov. 2025

Stylistically, the book becomes a motley, contaminated thing, a mix of Crews’s many modes—chatty, terse, demotic, detached, priapic, noirish, gnomic. —Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025

Rupert, arrogant, priapic to a fault, and vulnerable underneath the machismo is—somehow!—hard not to root for, if only because everyone who hates him is so much worse. —Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024

Lovers of priapic yachts, tax avoidance and other Monagesque pursuits would certainly be tempted, as views of the principality from the hotel’s perch above the Monte Carlo crush are second to none. —Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2023

Thus Will delves into an earlier period of gay life, one in which secrecy often acted as an aphrodisiac, via Charles’s diaries detailing his priapic days as a student at Winchester College and then Oxford, as a government official in Sudan and beyond. —June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023

Lingas are stone fertility symbols representing the god Shiva, carved in the form of priapic domes. —Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023

Bane the sadsack, Bane the priapic colossus. —Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023

Word History

Etymology

Latin priapus lecher, from Priapus

First Known Use

1786, in the meaning defined at sense 1