pathic
UK/ˈpæθɪk/
pathic noun: synonym of bottom: a passive usually-male partner in homosexual anal intercourse.
Noun
pathic (plural pathics)
- Synonym of bottom: a passive usually-male partner in homosexual anal intercourse.
- In England the vices in fashion are whoring & drinking, in Turkey, Sodomy & smoking, we prefer a girl and a bottle, they a pipe and pathic.1810, Lord Byron, letter (to Henry Drury), 3 May 1810
- And enough of these gooey saints with a look of pathic dismay as if they getting fucked up the ass and try not to pay any mind.1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 115
- Synonyms:
- bottom
Adjective
pathic (comparative more pathic, superlative most pathic)
Examples of pathic in a sentence
- But in those days I was Paul Dempster, who had been made to forget it and take a name from the side of a barn, and be the pathic of a perverted drug-taker.1975, Robertson Davies, World of Wonders:
- Clermont (known to his friends as Cordelia) was a nancy, a pathic, a male varlet, a masculine whore.1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:
Synonyms of pathic
Forms of pathic
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pathics |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more pathic |
| superlative | most pathic |
Origin of pathic
From Latin pathicus, from Ancient Greek παθικός (pathikós), from πάθος (páthos, “suffering, feeling”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “to feel, to suffer”).
Words that rhyme with pathic
Questions about pathic
- What does pathic mean?
- Pathic means synonym of bottom: a passive usually-male partner in homosexual anal intercourse.
- How do you use pathic in a sentence?
- But in those days I was Paul Dempster, who had been made to forget it and take a name from the side of a barn, and be the pathic of a perverted drug-taker.
- What part of speech is pathic?
- Pathic can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce pathic?
- Pathic is pronounced /ˈpæθɪk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pathic?
- The plural of pathic is pathics.
Words near pathic in the dictionary
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