privy member
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English
Noun
privy member (plural privy members)
- (archaic) The penis.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis
- 1874, Plato, “The Symposium”, in Benjamin Jowett, transl., The Dialogues of Plato, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Armstrong, and Co., page 483:
- In the second place, the primeval man was round and had four hands and four feet, back and sides forming a circle, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder to correspond.
References
- “privy member, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
