pathic
/ˈpæθɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From Latin pathicus, from Ancient Greek παθικός (pathikós), from πάθος (páthos, “suffering, feeling”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “to feel, to suffer”).
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈpæθɪk/