stallionize

English

Etymology

stallion +‎ -ize

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.
   • 1653, François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, in The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor of Physick:

     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?

   • 1846, The American Agriculturist - Volume 5, page 52:

     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.

   • 2015, Edgar Pangborn, Edgar Pangborn SF Gateway Omnibus:

     Then of a sudden she was kissing and fondling instead of fighting me off, laughing under her breath and using a few horny words I didn't know at that time; presently her hands were gripping her knees, I was in her standing, joyfully stallionizing it with not a thought in my head to interfere.

2. To make virile and manly.
   • 1957, Charles Carver, Brann and the Iconoclast, page 47:

     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 "French Nerve Pill" — guaranteed to re-stallionize old roues — and following up a long dissertation on "The Weakness of the Baptist Denomination" with an illustrated notice to the effect that "loss of manly power resulting from bad habits" is cured by certain eastern Cagliostros, who will send, "securely sealed in plain envelope on receipt of 10 cents," a medical treaties "written in plain language."

   • 1970, Geoffrey Grigson, Notes from an odd country, page 96:

     The stallionizing of Roy Campbell.

   • 1976, C. V. Myers, Money and Energy: Weathering the Storm, page 132:

     The public is sort of like a de-stallionized stallion.

Synonyms

• (engage in sexual intercourse): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (make virile): virilize