Pronunciations
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/ˈmeɪˌpoʊl/
Pronunciation notes
- US
Noun
A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.
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How would you like the maypole decorated?
The maypole, the focal point of many traditional spring games and festivities, is believed to be a relic of ancient phallic worship.
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The seemingly innocent Maypole is a relic of witchcraft.
At Ickwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanent maypole. There, the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women) carrying besoms - birch-twig brooms.
A very tall girl or young lady.
Usage- idiomatic
A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.
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The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, a maypole up to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens.
A penis, especially a large one.
Usage- euphemistic
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and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.
Verb
To dance or spin in a circle around something.
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Kristina quieted a little, and maypoled around me.
The line jerked and maypoled itself around the rod.
Noun
a vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day
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