This word was mentioned recently in a
thread on schlock. I feel I should deal with this suggestion before looking at the more recent issue.
In fact, there's no doubt about the eligibility of
schlong to be accepted. It is found in various dictionaries. It is generally labeled as a US term, but this is no barrier to its admission as a rare word. In any case, its use is not unknown elsewhere. For example a 2015 piece in the
Independent about the state of dentistry in the UK:
My last NHS dentist operated out of what could be described as an outhouse made of MDF. For appointments at 8am he’d regularly swagger in without apology at 8.40am, clad in eye-wateringy snug Spandex cycling shorts... In private dentist world, one meets all the ambitious, big dollar-making, punctual dentists who favour a nice, prim white coat and wouldn’t dream of presenting their schlong to you at eye level through cycling shorts.
In a context like that, the meaning of the word is obvious, even to a reader who's never seen it before. It probably has the attraction for the writer of being more casual than
penis, but less vulgar than some of the other terms that might be used. Plus it sounds funny.
In the recent thread, Les303 mentioned Donald Trump's use of the word
schlonged, referring to Hillary Clinton's 2008 defeat in the primaries by Barack Obama. The use of
schlong as a verb is found only in Wiktionary, where it has both a physical and a figurative meaning. The examples I found online were almost all related to Mr Trump's remarks. At this stage I don't think
schlonged is well enough established for us to adopt as a word. (Of course it's of academic interest only, since it would probably never come up in a puzzle.) Depending on the result in November, we may find the word being regularly uttered from the Oval Office, and it might eventually be adopted by all the dictionaries.
