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stallionize

stallionize verb: to behave like a stallion, especially to engage in sexual intercourse.

Verb

stallionize (third-person singular simple present stallionizes, present participle stallionizing, simple past and past participle stallionized)

  1. To behave like a stallion, especially to engage in sexual intercourse.
    • I' troth, Sir Grandpaw, quoth the Ass, I am somewhat a Blockhead you know, and can't for the heart's blood of me learn so fast the Court-way of speaking of you Gentlemen-horses; I mean don't you Stallionize it sometimes here among your metal'd Fillies?1653, François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, in The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor of Physick
    • If he has a bull to show, he will exhibit him as a jockey does a stallion, parading him on rising ground, thrusting his head up and of course sinking his back till it is hollow, and his haunch sticks out like a starved calf's, stuffed fro show with bog hay. This may be called stallionizing.1846, The American Agriculturist - Volume 5, page 52
    Synonyms:
    coitize
  2. To make virile and manly.
    • It shocks his sense of the proprieties to see a great religious journal (see "Editorials by Our Subscribers" — none of whom, we hope, have misplaced their "manhood") like the Texas Baptist Standard flaunting in the middle of a page of jejune prattle anent the Holy Spirit, a big display ad. for the...1957, Charles Carver, Brann and the Iconoclast, page 47
    • The stallionizing of Roy Campbell.1970, Geoffrey Grigson, Notes from an odd country, page 96
    Synonyms:
    virilize

Synonyms of stallionize

Forms of stallionize

third-person singular presentstallionizes
present participlestallionizing
past participlestallionized
paststallionized

Origin of stallionize

From stallion + -ize.

Questions about stallionize

What does stallionize mean?
Stallionize means to behave like a stallion, especially to engage in sexual intercourse.
What part of speech is stallionize?
Stallionize is a verb.
What is the past tense of stallionize?
The past tense of stallionize is stallionized.

Words near stallionize in the dictionary

  1. Stallion Springs
  2. stallioneer
  3. stallioneers
  4. stallioner
  5. stallioners
  6. stallionize
  7. stallionized
  8. stallionizes
  9. stallionizing
  10. stallions
  11. stallkeeper

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