Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An inept, foolish, or contemptible person.

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  • noun vulgar, colloquial, coarse The glans penis.
  • noun vulgar, colloquial, pejorative, coarse A jerk; a mean or rude person.
  • noun vulgar, colloquial, pejorative, coarse A stupid or useless person.

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  • noun insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous

Etymologies

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dick + head

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  • Does this mean one's head is shaped like a dick, or that there is a dick growing from one's head? Or is it simply the head of a dick?

    February 8, 2007

  • I refuse to justify this question with an answer.

    February 8, 2007

  • Well, OK. But it does raise the question. If you think about bad words all the time, like I apparently do...

    February 9, 2007

  • I think it might be more metaphorical. The person thinks as well as a dick (thus, not much).

    February 9, 2007

  • Ahh, another shade of meaning. Thanks n.a.j.p. Hadn't thought of that. Maybe I, too, think as well as a ... well. I guess we know the answer to *that*.

    February 9, 2007

  • I had to forgo (can one say "I forwent"?) my first impulse for a definition, as I shouldn't like to paint an overly crude picture.

    February 9, 2007

  • forgo/forewent, undergo/underwent, are perfectly acceptable.

    February 9, 2007

  • Thank you!

    February 9, 2007