ith|y|phal|lic

ith|y|phal|lic «_IHTH uh FAL ihk», adjective, noun.

–adj.

1. having to do with the phallus carried in processions at festivals of Bacchus.

2. grossly indecent; obscene.

3. (in ancient prosody) of or composed in one of the meters used in hymns sung at the festivals of Bacchus, especially in lines of three trochees.

–n.

1. a poem in ithyphallic meter; lines of three trochees.

2. an indecent poem.

╂[< Latin īthyphallicus < Greek īthyphallikós < ithýphallos the phallic symbol < ithýs erect + phallós phallus]