pedicant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pēdīcans, present participle of pēdīcō (sodomize, assfuck).

Noun

pedicant (plural pedicants)

  1. (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

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of pēdīcō