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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dick + head. Attested since the 1960s, with the jerk sense appearing earliest.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dickhead (plural dickheads)
- (vulgar) The glans penis.
- 1970, Clarence Major, All-night Visitors, page 71:
- ...down, down, sinking down faster than she's so far moved, the dick head exploding up into all that wet, warm slime...
- (vulgar, derogatory, offensive, synecdochically) A jerk; a mean or rude person.
- 1965, Robin Moore, The Green Berets, page 242:
- I don't want them Special Forces guys left out there when some dickhead is afraid to go get them.
- 1996, Timothy Jay, What to Do When Your Students Talk Dirty, page 207:
- ...they have been exchanging insults in writing: "dickhead," "dillweed," "fuzzbutt," "dorkwad," "asswipe," and so forth.
- 2022, “Question...?”, performed by Taylor Swift:
- She was on your mind with some dickhead guy
That you saw that night
- (vulgar, derogatory, offensive, synecdochically) A stupid or useless person.
- 1979, E.M. Corder, The Deer Hunter, page 69:
- "Watch it, dickhead!" "Hey, Stan, that's my shirt you just dropped in the snow!"
Synonyms
[edit]- (glans penis): see also Thesaurus:glans.
- (jerk): see also Thesaurus:jerk.
- (idiot): see also Thesaurus:fool or Thesaurus:idiot.
Derived terms
[edit]terms derived from dickhead
Translations
[edit]glans penis — see glans penis
(slang) glans penis
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(slang) stupid person
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