Pathic vs Pathetic - What's the difference?
pathic | pathetic |
The passive male partner in 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 .
* 1959 : William Burroughs, Naked Lunch
* 1975 : Robertson Davies, World of Wonders
* 1976 : Robert Nye, Falstaff
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
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(obsolete) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
As adjectives the difference between pathic and pathetic
is that pathic is passive; suffering while pathetic is arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.As a noun pathic
is the passive male partner in anal intercourse.pathic
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
- Clermont (known to his friends as Cordelia) was a nancy, a pathic , a male varlet, a masculine whore.
See also
* catamiteAnagrams
* *pathetic
English
Alternative forms
* pathetick (archaic) * patheticke (obsolete) * pathetique (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The old man’s pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man’s heart.
- You can't even run two miles? That’s pathetic .
- You're almost 26 years old and you still can't hold a real job? That's pathetic .