Etymology

fuckhead

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Today it means: A stupid or otherwise undesirable person. Full definition →

English head ← Middle English heed ← Old English hēafod
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pewǵ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*fukkōną
  3. Old English*fuccian
  4. Middle English*fukken
  5. Englishfuck
  6. Proto-Indo-European*kap-?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*kap-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*káput
  9. Proto-Germanic*haubudą
  10. Old Englishhēafod
  11. Middle Englishheed
  12. Englishhead
  13. English todayfuckhead

From fuck + head. Dysphemistically modelled after dickhead.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.