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asshead

asshead noun: an idiotic or undesirable person.

Noun

asshead (plural assheads)

  1. (derogatory, offensive, slang, vulgar) An idiotic or undesirable person.
    • But some will say, our curate is naught, an asshead, a dodipole, a lack-latin, and can do nothing: Shall I pay him my tithes, that doth us no good or none will do? Yea, I say, thou must pay him his due; and if he be such a one, complain to the bishop.1550, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford, 9 October, 1550, in The Sermons and Life of Hugh Latimer, edited by John Watkins, London: Aylott & Son, Vol. I, p. 288
    • To disgrace therefore many untowardly asseheades, that through malepertnes thinke to purchase them the name of a good Courtyer, I would have suche a pastime for this night, that one of the company myght bee picked out who should take in hand to shape in woordes a good Courtyer, specifying all suche...1561, Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528), translated by Thomas Hoby, London: David Nutt, 1900, Book One, pp. 41-42

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Forms of asshead

pluralassheads
alternative formarsehead

Origin of asshead

From ass (“donkey or buttocks”) + head.

Questions about asshead

What does asshead mean?
Asshead means an idiotic or undesirable person.
What part of speech is asshead?
Asshead is a noun.
What is the plural of asshead?
The plural of asshead is assheads.

Words near asshead in the dictionary

  1. asshattedness
  2. asshattery
  3. asshattish
  4. asshattitude
  5. asshatty
  6. asshead
  7. assheads
  8. asshoe
  9. asshoes
  10. asshole
  11. asshole buddies

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