pathic

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 See also 1.4 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin pathicus, from Ancient Greek παθικός (pathikos), from πάθος (pathos), “‘suffering”, “feeling’”), from πάσχω (paskho), “‘I feel”, “I suffer’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /'pæθɪk/

[edit] Noun

pathic (plural pathics)

1. The passive male partner in anal intercourse.
   • 1959: William Burroughs, Naked Lunch

     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.

   • 1975: Robertson Davies, World of Wonders

     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.

   • 1976: Robert Nye, Falstaff

     Clermont (known to his friends as Cordelia) was a nancy, a pathic, a male varlet, a masculine whore.

[edit] See also

• catamite

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: achipt
• haptic
• phatic