pathic
adjEtymology From Latin pathicus, from Ancient Greek παθικός (pathikós), from πάθος (páthos, “suffering, feeling”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “to feel, to suffer”).
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Passive; suffering.
2
Relating to disease.
pathic
nounUK /ˈpæθɪk/
Etymology From Latin pathicus, from Ancient Greek παθικός (pathikós), from πάθος (páthos, “suffering, feeling”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “to feel, to suffer”).
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Literary 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:
2 more examples
- 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: