dickwhacker

English

Etymology

From dick +‎ whacker.

Noun

dickwhacker (plural dickwhackers)

1. (vulgar) A fool.
   • 1992, Noel Virtue, “Revival Week”, in Tom Wakefield, editor, The Ten Commandments, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 184:

     He can’t look after himself anymore. Up until a couple of years back I used to go down on the coach to see him from where I now live but he'd started to forget who I was. Mr Ritter had become a bit of a dickwhacker. The doctors called it senile dementia. He kept asking me to take him bags of blackballs and bunches of Canna lilies when I visited and told everyone that I was his young wife.

   • 2011, Robert R. McCammon, The Five, Subterranean Press, →ISBN, page 324:

     That little dickwhacker wanted to be seen, because in addition to the orange topper he was wearing bright blue plastic sandals, a common type of cheap footwear for these ragheads.

   • 2019, Shayne Carter, Dead People I Have Known, Victoria University Press, →ISBN:

     ‘Aw, ya dickwhackers,’ I blurted out, in unnecessary Brockville fashion, and Alastair doubled over laughing.