pathic

plural pathics

1. literarySynonym of bottom: a passive usually-male partner in homosexual anal intercourse.

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

   1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff

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   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

comparative more pathic · superlative most pathic

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