twathead

English

Etymology

From twat +‎ -head.

Pronunciation

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Noun

twathead (plural twatheads)

(vulgar, slang, offensive, derogatory) Term of abuse.
- 1974 October, David Howard, “Calling All Guys: Your Personal Guidebook to the Ins and Outs of Teen Gay Dating”, in National Lampoon, page 36:
  And suddenly there, you’ll know even then, that you will be badgered, abused, and publicly humiliated by that silly hysterical twathead again and again until you either have to change your phone number or your sex, whichever is less devastating to your social life.
- 1983 March, DebinBlack, “The Replies”, in Strangled, volume 2, number 13, page 24:
  Go and join the society for TWATHEADS, they like people with your talents.
- 1994, Rick Ridgway, Three Squirt Dog, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 52:
  Look at these twatheads!
- 1995, Hanif Kureishi, Jon Savage, editors, The Faber Book of Pop, London, Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, page 715:
  ‘You can tell the originals from the twatheads, all these fucking Southern dickheads, when we’re 40 you’ll still see us on the terraces boozed up, end up fighting, whatever. That’s what matters, that's what it’s about now. It’s a way of life for us.’
- 1999, Ben Elton, Inconceivable, Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 24:
  She said that she was sorry about today, and I thought she meant she was sorry about me getting shat on by arrogant, no-talent twatheads.
- 2000, Niall Griffiths, Grits, Vintage, published 2001, →ISBN, page 127:
  Only twatheads eat Penguins.