pedicant

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noun

A person who takes the penetrated role in anal sex.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounpedicant (plural pedicants)

plural pedicants

  1. dateduncommonA person who takes the penetrated role in anal sex.

    Sullivan might renounce the whole enterprise if he knew their man was the pedicant.

    1989, Christopher Bram, Hold Tight, New York: Plume, page 147
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    A male who prostitutes only his penis to homosexuals, either fellators, mutual masturbators, or passive pedicants.

    1965, “Goofer”, in Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms, Guild Press

    With all of his sex partners, he thus avoided anal sex, in which he would feel obliged to take the passive feminine role of the pedicant.

    2002, Henry L. Minton, Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America, The University of Chicago Press, page 200

Origin

  1. Latinpēdīcans
  2. Englishpedicant

Borrowed from Latin pēdīcans, present participle of pēdīcō (“sodomize, assfuck”).

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Chicago

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