dickhead

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

I don't want them Special Forces guys left out there when some dickhead is afraid to go get them.

1965, Robin Moore, The Green Berets, page 242:

...they have been exchanging insults in writing: "dickhead," "dillweed," "fuzzbutt," "dorkwad," "asswipe," and so forth.

1996, Timothy Jay, What to Do When Your Students Talk Dirty, page 207:

She was on your mind with some dickhead guy
That you saw that night

2022, “Question...?”, performed by Taylor Swift:

(vulgar, derogatory, offensive, synecdochically) A jerk; a mean or rude person.

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

1979, E.M. Corder, The Deer Hunter, page 69:

(vulgar, derogatory, offensive, synecdochically) A stupid or useless person.


cunt

en-noun

cunt (countable and uncountable, plural cunts)

From Middle English cunte, queynt, queynte, from Old English *cunte, from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ. Cognate with West Frisian kunte, Middle Dutch conte (Dutch kont (“butt”)), dialectal Swedish kunta, dialectal Danish kunte, and Icelandic kunta. A relationship to Latin cunnus has not been conclusively shown. Lexicographer Partridge suggests cuneus (“a wedge”).

Near-synonyms: bitch; see also Thesaurus:jerk

The taxi driver wisnae amused. He looked a right cunt. Maist ay them do. The stamp-peyin self-employed ur truly the lowest form ay vermin oan god’s earth.

1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 5:

Anne says that the only way she can rebel against her longsuffering hippie parents is by being a homeless, hatemongering, drug-addicted asshole cunt.

2002, Jim Goad, Shit Magnet - One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt, page 196:

Vinokur pulled the trigger a second and third time. "You're lying, you Polish cunt!" he screamed.

2007, Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, Kai Struve, Shared History, Divided Memory, page 287:

He rails against political correctness and health and safety regulations, and earlier this summer was accused of calling Gordon Brown "a cunt" in unbroadcast comments to his Top Gear audience, whom he has also referred to as "oafs".

2009 November 12, Patrick Barkham, “Top Gear: Why We're Mad About the Boys”, in The Guardian:

(vulgar, offensive, originally synecdochically, countable) An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in Commonwealth more usually a man).

I'm going to hit the clubs and see if I can get me some cunt.

(vulgar, synecdochically, countable and uncountable) A woman or any receptive sexual partner, as a source of potential or actual sexual gratification.


ass

ass (countable and uncountable, plural asses)

Variant of arse; used chiefly in North America. Ultimately from Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Old High German ars (German Arsch), Old Norse ars, Old Frisian ers), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érsos (compare Ancient Greek ὄρρος (órrhos)).
Etymological notes
Contrary to the widespread belief of this being a euphemism, it arose as a pronunciation spelling (of the older form arse still used in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) that shows the assimilation of /ɹ/ before coronal consonants (especially /s/), a phenomenon that has been present in nonstandard speech from the Middle English period onwards; this is distinct from the later phenomenon of non-rhoticity as /ɹ/ was lost before it could modify the preceding vowel. Other instances of this phenomenon (some of which retained both spellings with different meanings) include cuss from curse, gash from garsh, bass (“fish”) from barse, bust from burst, passel from parcel; see :Category:English terms with assimilation of historic /ɹ/ for a more extensive list.

find one's ass with both hands and a flashlight

know one's ass from a hole in the ground

know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground

know the difference between one's ass and one's elbow

think the sun shines out of someone's ass

Get your lazy ass out of bed!

We risk our asses out there every day.

I'ma get medieval on your ass! (idiomatic sense "on you" (compare go crazy on you), not literally and specifically "on your buttocks")

Mess up one more time and it's your ass (i.e. you're fired)

(vulgar, slang, synecdochically, countable) A person; the self; (reflexively) oneself or one's person, chiefly their body. By extension, one's personal safety, or figuratively one's job, prospects, etc.


tribe

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus. Doublet of tribus.

(synecdochically) A tribal nation or people.


heel

From Middle English hele, from Old English hēla, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō, from Proto-Germanic *hanhilaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“heel, hock”), equivalent to hock + -le. More at hock.
Compare North Frisian haiel, West Frisian hyl, Dutch hiel, German Low German Hiel, Danish and Norwegian hæl, Swedish häl.

couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel

I grinned at him sneeringly. I was the heel to end all heels. Wait until the man is down, then kick him and kick him again. He's weak. He can't resist or kick back.

1953, Raymond Chandler, chapter 29, in The Long Goodbye:

She should be glad to have him on her side. So why did Godshawk's memories, grumbling again in that substrate of her brain, keep reminding her of heels he'd known, and tricksters?

2011, Philip Reeve, Scrivener's Moon, Scholastic, →ISBN, pages 361–362:

Douglas steams and stammers, a typical film noir heel, while Stone delivers her dialogue with the devilish gleam of a sly actor having a great time.

2022 March 20, Jason Bailey, “‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal, synecdochically) A contemptible, unscrupulous, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.

törppö

contemptible, inconsiderate or thoughtless person


tongue

tongue (countable and uncountable, plural tongues)

Australian Kriol: tang

Bislama: tang

Sranan Tongo: tongo

Tok Pisin: tang

Torres Strait Creole: tang

From Middle English tonge, tunge, tung, from Old English tunge, from Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”) (compare West Frisian tonge, Dutch tong, Luxembourgish Zong, German Zunge, Yiddish צונג (tsung), Danish tunge, Norwegian Bokmål tunge, Swedish tunga, Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō)), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. Cognate with Old Irish tengae, Latin lingua, Tocharian A käntu, Tocharian B kantwo, Lithuanian liežùvis, Russian язык (jazyk), Polish język, Old Armenian լեզու (lezu), Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬰𐬎𐬎𐬁 (hizuuā), Persian زبان (zabân), Ashkun žū, Kamkata-viri dić, Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā́). Doublet of language and lingua.

puhe

uncountable: discourse, fluency of speech

I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 66:18:

(obsolete, synecdochically) Speakers of a language, collectively.

kieli

obsolete: speakers of a language collectively

I know that we must keep apart for a long while; cruel tongues would force us apart, if nothing else did.

1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book 7, Chapter 3:

[…] it was obvious to his listeners that Pittypat, in his mind, was still a plump and charming miss of sixteen who must be sheltered against evil tongues.

1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter 30, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:

2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 4, p. 592,
… the drunk, who had been a permanent fixture in that bar, changed location and thereafter moved from bar to bar, saying to inquisitive tongues, Too long a stay in one seat tires the buttocks.

(synecdochically, usually in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.


asshole

Variation 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).

cog

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:

(vulgar, derogatory or offensive, synecdochically) A jerk; an inappropriately or objectionably mean, inconsiderate, contemptible, obnoxious, intrusive, stupid, or rude person.


quim

Uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh cwm (“hollow”) is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".

(to Black Widow) In every way, [ Clint Barton ] knows your fear! And then he'll wake…to see his good work…When he screams, I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!

2012, Joss Whedon, The Avengers, spoken by Loki (Tom Hiddleston):

(vulgar, derogatory, synecdochically) An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person.


cunny

en-noun

cunny (countable and uncountable, plural cunnies)

(countable, fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) The vulva or vagina of a child or childlike character (loli).

(countable, synecdochically) A child or childlike character, especially when considered sexually attractive; a loli.


desktop

For quotations using this term, see Citations:desktop.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface, synecdochically) The wallpaper of this interface.


shithole

. "What a sorry-looking son-of-a-bitch," said one of the officers. "We aren't going to win this war with shitholes like this out there."

That girl, I've known her since we were teenagers, a sweeter, more innocent decent girl you couldn't wish to find .And you've dirtied her, you shithole.

2012, Michael J., Quadrangulation, →ISBN:

He did it by finding the best. The players that other teams had forgotten, ignored or dismissed as past their best. Then I would scream, kick their arses, motivate the shitholes and care for them in equal measures.

2013, Mark Collar, Those Forest Men, page 61:

(synecdochically) A wretched or despicable person.

The anus.
A wretched or despicable person.


cockhead

From cock + head; see cock (“penis (slang)”). Compare dickhead.

I'm star material, you cockhead. Just look at me!

2003, Jerzy N. Kosinski, The Devil Tree: A Novel, page 89:

(vulgar, slang, derogatory, offensive, synecdochically) Dickhead, a term of abuse.


knobhead

Luca was wary of Tav getting away with too much twattishness, because he had a lot of it floating around, and maybe some people liked that whole knobhead dominant guy thing, but not Luca.

2015, Matthew J. Metzger, The Italian Word for Kisses, page 193:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, vulgar, slang, synecdochically) A fool; an idiot; a contemptible person.


fuckhole

(vulgar, slang, synecdochically) One's sexual partner.


dickhole

(slang, vulgar, derogatory, synecdochically) A contemptible person.


niggerlips

niggerlips (countable and uncountable, plural niggerlips)

From nigger + lips, in reference to the stereotype that black people have large lips.

He was like "Fuck you,
niggerlips...you can come along if you suck all of our dicks on a daily
basis."

1997 September 30, KarJacka, “I'm going on tour with Ink & Dagger”, in alt.music.hardcore (Usenet):

Ruth ran into Sternsen in New York in 1930 and said to him, "Now don't you
call me Niggerlips, or I'll break your arm."

2000 August 16, Steve Cutchen, “First black major leaguer: Babe Ruth”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):

so you want your teacher to talk about niggerlips - and you think your
boyfriend is immature? so you want your boyfriend to hang out in trees
masturbating and you think your boyfriend is immature?

2005 September 10, Susan, “OT: Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney!”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):

Brad Shitt and Niggerlips Jolie are going there for their honeymoon !

2006 March 4, Niggercrusher, “Re: AND YOU ARE PROUD OF THESE FUCKING DUNCES???????”, in alt.rap (Usenet):

(plural only, offensive, ethnic slur, synecdochically) A person, especially a black person, with large lips.


cockhole

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cockhole.wav

From cock + hole. The ethnic slur was chosen from the phonological similarity to khokhol, popularized among English-speaking supporters of the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2022.

(synecdochically) A contemptible person.


cocksleeve

(vulgar, slang, sometimes derogatory, synecdochically) A person in which another puts their penis.


bootlip

2003 September 29, Pencil Eraser, “Bootlips Always Need More Taxpayer (WHITE) Money To Prevent Their Own Violence”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Sounds of agreement could be heard coming form our other teammates, indicating to me that Angie's husband was indeed significantly more racist than the rest of them. I took that to mean that he mus have been a part of some type of organized hate group, like the Klan, or the skinheads.
“He can't stand y'all,” she continued. “He calls y'all a bunch of boot lips.”

2016 February 29, Leroy Wilson, Reversal of Trends: A Black Man’S Journey Across the Mason-Dixon Line, iUniverse, →ISBN:

The vile, savage bootlips don't give a shit about each other. They
never have.

2020 August 7, DFS, “OT: Where is BLM”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

It would just be footage of all black countries showing what shitholes they
are and what America will become if the bootlips ever do complete their takeover.

2022 February 13, ]v [etaphoid, “New Spook TV show "Everything's Gonna Be All White" exposes evil Whitey's racisms an' sheeeyit”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool (Usenet):

(derogatory, ethnic slur, synecdochically) A black person.


Persian gum

Persian gum (countable and uncountable, plural Persian gums)

From their origin in Iran. In reference to P. scoparia, specifically after the model of gum arabic.

(countable, synecdochically) Any of the plants producing such resins.