satyriasis

sa•ty•ri•a•sis (sey-tuh-RAHY-uh-sis, sat-uh-)  n

Definition:
excessive, often uncontrollable sexual desire in and behavior by a man
satyric adjective
Origin:
1650s, medical Latin, from Gk. satyriasis, from satyros

Related:
Synonyms: gynecomania, satyrism, satyromania. Cf. nymphomania
Related Words: satyr

Sentence Examples:
• "If a man wears about his neck a card inscribed with these identical words written in this juice, he will beget a male. Conversely, if a woman, she will conceive a female". Gilbert, however, cautions the bearer of this potent charm of the possible dangers of satyriasis incurred thereby, and offers suitable remedies for so alarming a condition. - Gilbertus Anglicus, Henry Ebenezer Handerson

• "The men most liable to satyriasis," Bouchereau states, "are those with vigorous nervous system, developed muscles, abundant hair on body, dark complexion, and white teeth." - Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Havelock Ellis

• Maniacs are prone to satyriasis and bacchanalian excesses. They commit rape and indecent acts in public and often appropriate strange objects, hair or wearing apparel, with the idea of obtaining means to satisfy their vices, either because they are unconscious of doing wrong or because, like true megalomaniacs, they believe the stolen goods to be their own property. - Criminal Man, Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

Sources: Free Dictionary, Online Etymology

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lubricious

lu•bri•cious (loo-BRISH-uhs)  adj

Definition:
1. arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful; lecherous
2. having a slippery or smooth quality
3. shifty or tricky
lubriciousness, lubricity noun;  lubriciously adverb

lubricous
lu•bri•cous (LOO-bri-kuhs) adj
1. (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery
2. unstable; shifty; fleeting

Origin:
1580s, from L. lubricus "to make slippery or smooth," from lubricus "slippery"

Related:
Synonyms: concupiscent, lascivious, carnal, immoral, indecent, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious,  lustful, obscene, prurient, salacious, sensual, wanton; slick, greasy, oily, oleaginous, sleek, slippery; crafty, crooked, cunning, deceptive, devious, dishonest, disingenuous, fraudulent, guileful, shady, shifty, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, unscrupulous, wily
Related Words: lubricant

Sentence Examples:
• The great number of severe accidents annually caused by the idiotic custom of casting orange-peel and such other lubricious integuments recklessly about the side-walks, has long furnished a topic for public animadversion. Some of our leading citizens have taken the matter in hand--or, to speak more correctly, on foot. - Punchinello, 1870

• Schiller is always in pursuit of the intense, the extraordinary, the ecstatic, and sometimes fails to impress through sheer superabundance of the impressive. His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,--so lubricious in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,--and a sublimated philosophy based on Platonic conceptions of a prenatal existence, or upon Leibnitzian conceptions of a pre-established harmony. - The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller, Calvin Thomas

• It is on the side of sex that the appointed virtuosi of virtue exercise their chief repressions, for it is sex that especially fascinates the lubricious Puritan mind; but the conventual reticence that thus becomes the enforced fashion in one field extends itself to all others. - A Book of Prefaces, by H. L. Mencken

Why This Word:
Lubricious and lubricous are synonyms excepting lubricous lacks the sense of being wanton or lascivious.

Sources: Free Dictionary, Dictionary.com, Online Etymology

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concupiscent

con•cu•pi•scent (kon-KYOO-pi-suhnt)  adj

Definition:
characterized by amorous or lustful desire or appetite; sensual; libidinous

concupiscence noun;  concupiscently adverb

Origin:
mid-15c., from L. concupiscentem (nom. concupiscens), prp. of concupiscere "to long for, covet", inceptive of concupere "to be very desirous of," from com-, intensive prefix, + cupere "to long for"

Related:
Synonyms: lustful, carnal, desirous, sensual
Related Words: cupidity, covet

Sentence Examples:
• Brother Ambrose allowed himself an inward chortle, as he paced along the portico, recollecting how close to success the scheme had come. The book had had to be read first (or re-read, rather) by Ambrose to determine just which chapter would be most apt to damn a soul with concupiscent suggestion.  -G-r-r-r...!, Roger Arcot

• Trembling with fear at the audacious ambition of his concupiscent companion, the Sloven replied, “If your wish should come to the ears of the King, we shall die; indeed, we should die.”  -Hawaiian Folk Tales

• But of young girls, who had grown up very quickly, alas! who were very precocious, and who very soon became the women that they were, poor vendors of love, always in search of love for which they were paid. That was why, when he had finished his second ballad, and sometimes even sooner, concupiscent looks appeared in their eyes. -Kind Girls, Guy de Maupassant

The Storyline
The concupiscent looks Sara kept giving Anna's father didn't help matters.

Sources: Wordnik, Online Etymology

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quean

quean (kween)  n

Definition:
1. an overly forward, impudent woman; shrew; hussy.
2. a prostitute.
3. Scots. a girl or young woman, esp. a robust one.

Origin:
before 1000;  ME quene,  OE cwene;  c. MD quene, kone,  OS, OHG quena,  Goth qino  < Gmc *kweno-n-;  akin to OE cwe-n  woman, queen

Related:
Synonyms: bimbo, floozy, harlot, hussy, jezebel, slattern, tramp, wench


Sentence Examples:
• Well at length he was admitted, and made a member of the family, in which he demeaned himself so well by his willingness to run or go or do any service how mean so ever that he had got the good will of all the whole houshold, only the kitchin maid being a curst quean, and knowing him to be an under servant to her, domineered over him and used him very coursely and roughly, of which he would never complain, though he had cause enough. -The History of Sir Richard Whittington, T. H.

• ExAs fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, as your
French crown for your taffety punk, as Tib's rush for Tom's
forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove Tuesday, a morris for Mayday,
as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding
quean to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the friar's
mouth; nay, as the pudding to his skin.
-All's Well That Ends Well, William Shakespeare

•UNLUCKILY, a neighbour's prying eyes
Beheld their playful pranks with great surprise,
She, from her window, could the scene o'erlook;
When this the fond gallant observ'd, he shook;
Said he, by heav'ns! our frolicking is seen,
By that old haggard, envious, prying quean;
But do not heed it; instantly he chose
To run and wake his wife, who quickly rose;—
So much the dame he fondl'd and caress'd,
The garden walk she took at his request,
To have a nosegay, where he play'd anew
Pranks just the same as those of recent view,
Which highly gratified our lady fair,
Who felt dispos'd, and would at eve repair,
To her good neighbour, whom she bursting found,
With what she'd seen that morn upon the ground.
-Quotes and Images From The Tales and Novels of Jean de La Fontaine

The Storyline
She hadn't seen him since he ran off with the woman who facetiously became referred to as the quean.

Sources: Dictionary.com

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