ithyphallics

Noun

ithyphallic (plural ithyphallics)

1. A poem or song in an ithyphallic metre.
   • And vvanton Catullus, comparing a heauie fellovv, vnvvorthily bleſt vvith a Delicacie in the marriage bed, to a log, hath this Ithyphallique: Talis iſte meus Stupor nil videt, nihil audit. [Such a dolt as this one of mine sees nothing, hears nothing.]1614, John Selden, chapter VI, in Titles of Honor, London: […] William Stansby for Iohn Helme, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 117
2. A lascivious or obscene poem or song.
   • I omit noticing some edifying Ithyphallics of Savagius, wishing to keep the proper veil over them, if his grave but somewhat indiscreet worshipper will suffer it; but certainly these teachers of "great moral lessons" are apt to be found in strange company.1822 October 15, Quevedo Redivivus [pseudonym; Lord Byron], “The Vision of Judgment: Preface”, in The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: […] John Hunt...

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