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dickhead

noun
/ˈdɪkˌ(h)ɛd/

Etymology

From dick + head. Attested since the 1960s, with the jerk sense appearing earliest. Compare cockhead, knobhead.

  1. inherited from *káput✻ — “head”
  2. inherited from *haubudą✻ — “head”
  3. inherited from *haubud✻
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin”
  5. inherited from efd
  6. compounded as dickhead — “dick + head”

Definitions

  1. The glans penis.

    • ...down, down, sinking down faster than she's so far moved, the dick head exploding up into all that wet, warm slime...

  2. A jerk

    A jerk; a mean or rude person.

    • I don't want them Special Forces guys left out there when some dickhead is afraid to go get them.
    • ...they have been exchanging insults in writing: "dickhead," "dillweed," "fuzzbutt," "dorkwad," "asswipe," and so forth.
    • She was on your mind with some dickhead guy That you saw that night

  3. A stupid or useless person.

    • "Watch it, dickhead!" "Hey, Stan, that's my shirt you just dropped in the snow!"

The neighborhood

Derived

dickheaded, dickheadedly, dickheadedness, dickheadish

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dickhead. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA