privy member

English

Noun

privy member (plural privy members)

1. (archaic) The penis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

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

     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.

References

• “privy member, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.