ithyphallic noun & adjective. [ɪƟɪ'falɪk] E17.
[Late Latin ithyphallicus from Greek ithuphallikos, from ithuphallos, from ithus straight + phallos PHALLUS: see -IC.]
A. noun. A poem in ithyphallic metre. Also, an obscene or sexually explicit poem. E17.
b. adjective.
1. Of a cult, ceremony, carved figure, etc.: associated with or characterized by (the symbol of) a phallus, esp. in the context of Bacchic festivals in ancient Greece; spec. composed in the metre of the Bacchic hymns (the trochaic dimeter brachycatalectic). L18.

2. Grossly indecent, obscene. M19.

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