pathicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpæθɪk/
• 韻: -æθɪk

名詞

pathic (plural pathics)

1. (now literary) Synonym of bottom: a passive usually-male partner in homosexual anal intercourse.
   • 1810, Lord Byron, letter (to Henry Drury), 3 May 1810:

     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.

   • 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 115:

     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.

形容詞

pathic (comparative more pathic, superlative most pathic)

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

参照

• “pathic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• haptic, phatic