Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inept, foolish, or contemptible person.
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- noun pejorative, slang A
stupid orcontemptible person. - noun uncountable A
card game , the aim of which is to lose one's cards
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- noun a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Gentlemen,” said Skinny, “I want the record to show I have never in my life been called a shithead, not since I was a young boy.”
Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994
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Although Lindh was seriously wounded, starving, freezing, and exhausted, U.S. soldiers blindfolded and handcuffed him naked, scrawled "shithead" across the blindfold, duct-taped him to a stretcher for days in an unheated and unlit shipping container, threatened him with death, and posed with him for pictures.
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Reportedly, during a Senate Republican luncheon, when a colleague demanded an apology because McCain had called him a "shithead," McCain responded: "I apologize, but you're still a shithead."
Win McCormack: McCain Wants to Be President: Those Who Know Him Best Express Alarm 2008
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Apparently, in their world, calling Mr. Sidarth a "shithead" is somehow acceptable.
08/16/2006 2006
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The Family Ties star and manic blogger is calling people "shithead" and "human waste" for spamming her Twitter homepage, unaware she's seeing a new feature announced over a month ago.
Gawker 2009
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Victim, i was on your side until you called Marcuse a 'shithead' ... surely as a self-proclaimed 'Marxist' you can see the worth in many of the Gramscian concepts presented in one-dimensional man?
Punknews.org 2009
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I was ruder than I should have been with the "shithead" comment.
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The Family Ties star and manic blogger is calling people "shithead" and "human waste" for spamming her Twitter homepage, unaware she's seeing a new feature announced over a month ago.
Gawker: Defamer 2009
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• Hoder: A strong majority of this 'shithead' have chosen this man to run their country.
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• Hoder: A strong majority of this 'shithead' have chosen this man to run their country.
chained_bear commented on the word shithead
Sometimes when I see this word, it looks like "shih--theed." I hate when my brain does that.
October 30, 2007
skipvia commented on the word shithead
Have you read Freakonomics? In his chapter on Perfect Parenting (naming of children, among other things), Levitt refers to an individual born in California with the given name "Shithead." It was supposed to be pronounced "shu - TEED." I suspect it usually wasn't.
October 30, 2007
uselessness commented on the word shithead
You reminded me of a Snopes page (warning: offensive racial language) about unfortunate-baby-name urban legends. This one is included there, along with the famous Latrine and Pajama. Also mentioned is Ima Hogg, recently discussed here.
October 30, 2007
gangerh commented on the word shithead
A couple of decades ago I was infamous for my headgear collection. My least liked hat was plastic replica turds on top of a baseball cap with the word shithead on. I can't believe I told you that.
January 29, 2008
sionnach commented on the word shithead
WE love it when you share, gangerh.... :-)
January 29, 2008
yarb commented on the word shithead
Ours is that thriving company noted for
caps (worn by prankster drolls) on the peaks of which,
gleaming, repose the simulacra,
sculpted in plastic, of great big dog turds.
Thus are we designated: Shitheads.
- Peter Reading, Shitheads.
January 29, 2008