Meanings
- slanglifestyleThe ship of characters Patroclus and Achilles from the novel The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.
Mainly because I want to cry and see Patrochilles in all their glory!
2018, Nkiya Machona, quoted in Curiositales, September 2018, page 822 more examples
Perhaps even more problematically for the Patrochilles naysayers, is that this ambiguity throughout Homer's original epic is really not that ambiguous.
2021, Amelia Koen, "An Olive Pit, A Lyre, A Fig", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 8, Semester 2 (2021), page 19The Twitter account Incorrect Patrochilles Quotes has over 20,000 followers and is entirely devoted to The Song of Achilles.
2021, Sarah Leidich, "From Muse To Material: The Defiance Of Homeric Identity Through Creative Adaptation", Meliora, Volume 1, Issue 1 (link)
Origin
Blend of Patroclus + Achilles.
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Patrochilles. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Patrochilles
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