asshole
/æshoʊl/
asshole noun: the anus.
Noun (1)
asshole (plural assholes)
- The anus.
- That homemade hot sauce of yours got me twice, both coming and going. My asshole is still sore.
- She said she couldn't wiggle when she had the doorknob in her asshole.1910, “Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York Third Department”, in Google Books, retrieved 27 Jul 2014
- A jerk; an inappropriately or objectionably mean, inconsiderate, contemptible, immoral, obnoxious, intrusive, stupid, or rude person.
- My former landlord was a world-class asshole. Fortunately my current landlord is an actual human being.
- He philosophised all day about Morandi, Klee, Miró and Picasso, and was such an asshole that he spelled "cunt" with a "d".1965, Jan Cremer, translated by R. E. Wyngaard and Alexander Trocchi, I, Jan Cremer, →OCLC, page 78
- Anything (especially a place) that is unpleasant or undesirable.
- Welcome to the Northeast, the asshole of America.
- You oughta have better sense than to trust anyone with anything in this asshole place.1976, Felix Goodson, Sweet Salt, →ISBN, page 254
Noun (2)
asshole (plural assholes)
- A receptacle under a fire grate for collecting ashes; an ash-hole.
- Esshole, Asshole, the hole under the fire to hold ashes.1775, Tim Bobbin [John Collier], The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq., →OCLC, page 68
asshole meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Odia
asshole in Hindi
- anus
- गांड gāṇḍ
- mean or rude person
- चूतिया cūtiyā
asshole in Urdu
- anus
- گانڈ gānḍ
- mean or rude person
- مورکھ mūrkh
asshole in Bengali
- anus
- হোগা hōga
asshole in Odia
- ଗାଧା
More languagesFewer languages
- asshole in Nepali
- गाधा
- asshole in Tagalog
- kupal
- asshole in Arabic
- فتحة الشرج Futh'at ach-charj, بَوْش bawš
- asshole in Malay
- dubur, jubur, bangsat
- asshole in Indonesian
- brengsek, bajingan, bangsat, keparat
- asshole in Persian
- سوراخ کون surâx-e kun, کسکش kos-keš
- asshole in Thai
- ก้น gôn
- asshole in Vietnamese
- lỗ đít, đít
- asshole in Myanmar
- ဖင် hpang
Examples of asshole in a sentence
- 'You talk as if you were born without an asshole,' he cried to Commander Semmes.1954, Ira Wolfert, An Act of Love: A Completely Retold Version of the Novel, →OCLC, page 54:
- ... but when he started bugging the bartender to shut the asshole TV off because he wanted to have a serious discussion...1979, Ronald Sukenick, Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues, →ISBN, page 83:
Synonyms of asshole
Forms of asshole
| plural | assholes |
|---|---|
| alternative Commonwealth Ireland UK | arsehole |
| alternative form | basshole |
| alternative form | esshole |
| alternative form (nonstandard, humorous) | asswhole |
Origin of asshole
Variant of earlier arsehole, from Middle English arshole, arcehoole, equivalent to ass + hole. Cognate with Norwegian rasshøl (“asshole”), Swedish arsle (“asshole”). Compare also German Arschloch (“asshole”). Attested from the 1370s, replacing earlier Old English earsþyrel (“anus”, literally “ass hole”). First recorded in Middle English, as ers hole (Glouc. Cath. Manuscript 19. No. I., dated 1379, cited after OED), ars-hole (Bodleian Ashmole MS. 1396, dated ca. 1400, ed. Robert Von Fleischhacker as Lanfrank's "Science of Cirurgie", EETS 102, 1894, cited after OED.) Slang figurative usage dates to the 20th century; it was used of an uninviting place (compare shithole) in the 1920s, and then of an anti-social or despicable person from at least the 1950s (Harvard Advocate 137, March 1954). It is also used appositionally (as in "You're an asshole moralist", T. Chamales, 1957).
From Scots ass, asse or ash + hole.
Words formed from asshole
- askhole
- asshole buddy
- assholed
- assholedom
- assholehood
- assholeness
- assholery
- assholey
- assholic
- assholiness
- assholish
- assholism
- assholocene
- asstard
- cockhole
- dickhole
- douchehole
- frathole
- glasshole
- harasshole
- jackhole
- jerkhole
- maskhole
- Masshole
- opinions are like assholes
- paxhole
- rip someone a new asshole
- tear someone a new asshole
- vaxhole
Phrases with asshole
Questions about asshole
- What does asshole mean?
- Asshole means the anus.
- What is asshole in Hindi?
- Asshole in Hindi is गांड (gāṇḍ), चूतिया (cūtiyā). See Asshole meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use asshole in a sentence?
- 'You talk as if you were born without an asshole,' he cried to Commander Semmes.
- What part of speech is asshole?
- Asshole is a noun.
- How do you pronounce asshole?
- Asshole is pronounced /æshoʊl/ (US).
- What is the plural of asshole?
- The plural of asshole is assholes.
Words near asshole in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: asshole (page history and authors); asshole (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); asshole (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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