America's 10 Most-Wanted Words

[Aaron E. Drews]

on 3/5/00 6:19 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

>>
>>>>>>>
>> And Jesse - if you didn't link to the page yet, they're looking for the
>> female equivalent of phallic.
>> <<<<<
>>
>> "Yonic".
>>
> I'm not sure--that seems more like the female equivalent of lingamesque.
>
>

I have to agree with Mark.  I think it's "yonic".  I think both "phallic"
and "yonic" have Sanskritic roots.... or at least that both come from the
Kama Sutra.

-- Aa

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
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