Meanings
plural pedicants
- 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 1472 more examples
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 PressWith 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
- Latinpēdīcans
- Englishpedicant
Borrowed from Latin pēdīcans, present participle of pēdīcō (“sodomize, assfuck”).
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