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shithead

noun
/ˈʃɪt.hɛd/

Etymology

From shit + head. Dysphemistically modelled after dickhead.

  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 shithead — “shit + head”

Definitions

  1. A stupid or contemptible person.

    • Unfortunately Todd is a dummy, but what's worse is that Harvey is a shithead.
    • He goes, The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don't listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.
    • Suck my spinning steel, shithead!

  2. A card game, the aim of which is to lose one's cards.

  3. A person who uses the drug cannabis.

    • Reynolds tensed his jaw, “we have a lot less shitheads in the LoC than they do over here. You wanna know why? Cuz it's all legal. We got farmers growin' marijuana. Poppies. Coca. Instead of shitheads we got cokeheads and dope heads. […]

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Derived

shitheadery

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shithead. 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