pitcher
/ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
American usage; Colloquial
Example Sentences
- "A tent pitcher"
- "A pitcher of ideas"
- "A quoits pitcher"
- "A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base."
- "To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood."
- "To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime."
Etymology
From pitch + -er.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: picher, pichier, -, pīcārium, βῖκος
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/
- British English: /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/
Usage
- Slang
- British usage
- Obsolete
- American usage
- Colloquial
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.