pedicate

English

Etymology

From Latin pēdīcāt- (perfect passive participial stem of pēdīcō (“sodomize, assfuck”)).

Verb

pedicate (third-person singular simple present pedicates, present participle pedicating, simple past and past participle pedicated)

1. (uncommon, dated) To penetrate (someone) anally; to perform pedication on (someone).

   Synonyms: sodomise, bugger (vulgar)

   • 1965, “One-way man”, in Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms, Guild Press:

     A male prostitute. (1) Heterosexual: will allow himself to be fellated but not pedicated. (2) Homosexual: will allow himself to be pedicated but will not perform fellation.

   • 1968, Gershon Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor, Grove Press, page 346:

     As this is anatomically absurd, absurd situations have to be invented to encompass it, as the fantasy, reported by Lesbians, of pedicating a man by means of an elongated clitoris.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 559:

     Socrates, played by the ugly snub-nosed Athenian Pericles Anthropophagoi or something like it, began the film as a brave soldier, saving the life of Alcibiades at Potidaea and then very explicitly pedicating him.

Latin

Verb

pēdīcāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of pēdīcō