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privy members

privy members is the plural of privy member.

Meaning of privy member

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

Questions about privy members

What is privy members the plural of?
Privy members is the plural of privy member.

Words near privy members in the dictionary

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

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