Meaning of asshead | Babel Free

Definitions

an idiotic or undesirable person.

derogatory, mildly, offensive, slang, vulgar

Examples

“1550, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford, 9 October, 1550, in The Sermons and Life of Hugh Latimer, edited by John Watkins, London: Aylott & Son, Vol. I, p. 288, But some will say⟳, our curate is naught, an asshead, a dodipole, a lack-latin, and can do nothing: Shall I pay⟳ him my tithes, that doth us no good or none will do? Yea, I say⟳, thou must pay⟳ him his due; and if he be such a one, complain⟳ to the bishop.”

“1561, Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528), translated by Thomas Hoby, London: David Nutt, 1900, Book One, pp. 41-42, To disgrace therefore many untowardly asseheades, that through malepertnes thinke to purchase⟳ them the name⟳ of a good Courtyer, I would have⟳ suche a pastime for this night, that one of the company myght bee picked out who should take⟳ in hand to shape⟳ in woordes a good Courtyer, specifying all suche condicions and particuler qualities, as of necessitie must be in hym that deserveth this name⟳.”

“1565, Levinus Lemnius, The Touchstone of Complexions [De habitu et constitutione corporis, 1561], translated by Thomas Newton, in James Winny (ed.), Elizabethan Prose Translations, Cambridge University Press⟳, 1960, pp. 22-23, For where the spirits be gross, thick and cold, it happeneth the mind⟳ be overclouded, and as the dimmed sun not to shine⟳ broad out, and this is the reason⟳ that persons in this sort⟳ affected have⟳ duller wits and blunter capacities. For proof thereof we are to see⟳ and consider⟳ such as are born and bred near to the Pole Arctic and icy sea, who for the most part are very huge and strong-bodied, but for wit and learning mere dolts and assheads.”

“What do you see⟳? you see⟳ an asshead of your own⟳, do you?”

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