pedicant
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pēdīcans, present participle of pēdīcō (“sodomize, assfuck”).
Noun
pedicant (plural pedicants)
- (uncommon, dated) A person who takes the penetrated role in anal sex.
- 1965, “Goofer”, in Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms, Guild Press:
- A male who prostitutes only his penis to homosexuals, either fellators, mutual masturbators, or passive pedicants.
- 1989, Christopher Bram, Hold Tight, New York: Plume, page 147:
- Sullivan might renounce the whole enterprise if he knew their man was 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:
- 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.
Latin
Verb
pēdīcant
- third-person plural present active indicative of pēdīcō