twathead

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noun

Term of abuse.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nountwathead (plural twatheads)

plural twatheads

  1. derogatoryoffensiveslangvulgarTerm of abuse.

    Look at these twatheads!

    1994, Rick Ridgway, Three Squirt Dog, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 52
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    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.

    1974 October, David Howard, “Calling All Guys: Your Personal Guidebook to the Ins and Outs of Teen Gay Dating”, in National Lampoon, page 36

    Go and join the society for TWATHEADS, they like people with your talents.

    1983 March, DebinBlack, “The Replies”, in Strangled, volume 2, number 13, page 24

    ‘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.’

    1995, Hanif Kureishi, Jon Savage, editors, The Faber Book of Pop, London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, page 715

    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.

    1999, Ben Elton, Inconceivable, Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 24

    Only twatheads eat Penguins.

    2000, Niall Griffiths, Grits, Vintage, published 2001, →ISBN, page 127

Origin

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