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phallic phase(medicine)
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Phallic stage(health)

grandaddy (oh) and phallic (iou)


grandaddy (oh)



[C] AmE informal
grandfather
the grandaddy of sth
the first or greatest example of something
::Louis Armstrong, the grandaddy of all jazz trumpeters

phallic (iou)



phallic adjective. L18.
[Greek phallikos, from phallos: see PHALLUS, -IC.]
Of or pertaining to a phallus or phallism; representing or suggestive of a phallus; Psychoanalysis designating a stage of (esp. male) development characterized by a preoccupation with the genitals.
C. Short I switched my mind to..the Eiffel Tower. It too was a phallic symbol.
phallically adverb M20.
phallicism noun veneration of the phallus or the sexual organs as symbolic of the generative power in Nature L19.
phallism noun phallicism L19.