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privy member

privy member noun: the penis.

Noun

privy member (plural privy members)

  1. (archaic) The penis.
    • 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.1874, Plato, “The Symposium”, in Benjamin Jowett, transl., The Dialogues of Plato, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Armstrong, and Co., page 483

Synonyms of privy member

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Forms of privy member

pluralprivy members

Questions about privy member

What does privy member mean?
Privy member means the penis.
What part of speech is privy member?
Privy member is a noun.
What is the plural of privy member?
The plural of privy member is privy members.

Words near privy member in the dictionary

  1. privy councils
  2. privy house
  3. privy houses
  4. privy mark
  5. privy marks
  6. privy member
  7. privy members
  8. privy parts
  9. Privy Purse
  10. Privy Purses
  11. privy seal

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