pathic

Passive; suffering.

Adjective

  1. Passive; suffering.
  2. Relating to disease.

Origin

From Latin pathicus, from Ancient Greek παθικός (pathikós), from πάθος (páthos, “suffering, feeling”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “to feel, to suffer”).

Forms

more pathic most pathic

Noun

  1. 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:
    • 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:

    Synonyms: bottom

Forms

pathics