pathic

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈpæθɪk/(UK)

Definition of pathic

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (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.”
    “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.”
    “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.”
    “Clermont (known to his friends as Cordelia) was a nancy, a pathic, a male varlet, a masculine whore.”
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noun

  1. (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.”
    “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.”
    “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.”
    “Clermont (known to his friends as Cordelia) was a nancy, a pathic, a male varlet, a masculine whore.”

adj

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

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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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