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phallometer

phallometer noun: an instrument for measuring the penis.

Noun

phallometer (plural phallometers)

  1. An instrument for measuring the penis.
    • “Galileo’s Middle Finger” is many things: a rant, a manifesto, a treasury of evocative new terms (sissyphobia, autogynephilia, phall-o-meter) and an account of the author’s transformation “from an activist going after establishment scientists into an aide-de-camp to scientists who found themselves...2015 April 17, David Dobbs, “‘Galileo’s Middle Finger,’ by Alice Dreger”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2015

Forms of phallometer

pluralphallometers

Origin of phallometer

From phallo- + -meter.

Questions about phallometer

What does phallometer mean?
Phallometer means an instrument for measuring the penis.
What part of speech is phallometer?
Phallometer is a noun.
What is the plural of phallometer?
The plural of phallometer is phallometers.

Words near phallometer in the dictionary

  1. phallolysin
  2. phallolysins
  3. phallomania
  4. phallomere
  5. phallomeres
  6. phallometer
  7. phallometers
  8. phallometric
  9. phallometrically
  10. phallometry
  11. phallophilia

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