dick n.1
1. a man, a fellow.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier D: I might see comming downe the hill a braue dapper Dicke, quaintly attired in veluet and sattin. | ||
Love’s Labour’s Lost V ii: Some Dick, That smiles his cheek in years, and knows the trick To make my lady laugh. | ||
Mercurius Democraticus 3-10 May 6: In Moor-fields last night, a piece of mortality walking [...] in the old walk of iniquity; meeting a young Dick [and] discovering him a person fit for her occupation [etc.]. | ||
Poems 8: Like that desperate Dick / Will have none do the trick / With his Wife, but a Gentleman. | ||
Honest Fellow 114: Quoth she, if these be Dublin tricks, / God send me down amongst my Dicks, / That live in sweet Mountrath. | ||
Manchester Spy (NH) 5 July n.p.: Old father Dodge was a queer dick. | ||
Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/1: I ain’t afeerd o’ all the robber Dicks from here ter Jerusalem. | ||
Dly Herald (Delphos, OH) 2 Dec. 2/2: Old Hipe was a queer Dick. | ||
🎵 Naughty nights at Liège / Quite upset this Dirty Dick. | ‘Belgium Put the Kybosh on the Kaiser’||
Milk and Honey Route (1930) 187: Doc. Reitman would with politics / From sin save every girl, / And Billy Burns, our wonder dick, / The red flag would unfurl. | ‘My Dream of Bughouse Square’ in Stiff||
Lore and Lang. of Schoolchildren (1977) 175: To turn a verb or adjective into a descriptive noun, as: [...] funny-dick. | ||
(con. WWII) And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 140: Man, you are as sharp as a wedding dick. | ||
Going After Cacciato (1980) 46: I remember this guy Uhlander. Not such a bad dick. | ||
Gardens of Stone (1985) 96: Let’s dump this dick. | ||
Pugilist at Rest 218: I’m moving up to the heavies, where I belong, and every swinging dick in the division better fucking look out! | ||
Observer Rev. 25 July 16: The same dick who bored you about ‘testimony’. | ||
Thrill City [ebook] Someone of superior force, which was pretty much every swinging dick around the godforsaken farmhouse. |
2. a victim or weakling; a simpleton.
New Brawle 4: [O]ut thou unnaturall Knave [...] a feeble dick thou. | ||
Catterpillers of this Nation Anatomized 37: Her part is to pick up a Dick that is full of money, whom she invites to her house. | ||
Chicago Trib. ‘The Onion’ 1 Dec. TAB-9/2: I, like all immature narcissistic sicks my age, are due the same rights as everyone else. |
3. a man as a sexual partner.
Mercurius Fumigosus 12 16–23 Aug. 113: Two of these Shee-Ranters, walking lately a clicketting to Rygate, pick’d up two Culs or Dicks by the way. | ||
Mercurius Fumigosus 7 53: A piece of mortality ... meeting a young Dick by the light of Luna, she discovering him a person fit for her occupation, dril’d him into a strain of Venery. | ||
Eng. Rogue III 64: The next Dick I pickt up for her was ... middle statur’d, well set, both strong and active. | ||
‘Last Night’s Ramble’ in | 309: [A] Grand procuresse to each standing P-k Came in half fluster’d from her Stallion Dick.||
Mundus Foppensis 13: [It is better to] kiss the Breeches of Twenty Women, than to lick The Bristles of one Male dear Dick. |
4. the given name used generically for a countryman.
Laughing Mercury 22-29 Sept. 197: A West Counrey Varmer (having a daughter whose name was Charity) [...] zent his son Dick up to London, and bidden her zeek. | ||
‘Country Wake’ in Pills to Purge Melancholy II 203: For when Country Gillians do play with their Dicks, / Then London must Father their Bastards. | ||
in Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 211: Quoth she, if there be London Tricks, / God send me down amongst my Dicks, / That live on Dunsmore Heath, Sir. |
5. the penis [see Williams I:382 for discussion of possible 16C uses].
‘Do As Father And Mother Do’ in Cockchafer 44: Says Dick, ‘it’s true, a dagger long, / I have got, my sweet delight.’. | ||
Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 1 Apr. 2/4: ‘Here’s to the Maiden of blushing fifteen’ by Dick Forcit. [...] Dick was heard to say, that he was not particular; anything with a cap and a smock on would do for him. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
(con. 1916) Her Privates We (1986) 53: Dost turn thysen to t’ wall, lad, so’s us ’ns sh’n’t see tha dick? | ||
(ref. to mid-19C) Amer. Madam (1981) 32: His dick was out, thick and long [...] somebody helped his dick find the mare’s quim. | ||
Tropic of Cancer (1963) 58: It feels exactly as if he had taken out the circumcised dick of his and was peeing on me. | ||
(con. 1944) Naked and Dead 348: If I’m afraid of having my dick cut off [...] I don’t care to know it. | ||
Diaries 2 Feb. 88: He smells of old spices and old dick. | ||
City of Night 196: He began cruising up and down the beach like some hung-up fairy that hasnt had any dick in months. | ||
🎵 Havw you had your dick standing like a stick. | ‘White Rum & Pum Pum’||
Street Players 121: When the come had come out of the head of his dick. | ||
On the Stroll 56: She needed reassurance more than dick. | ||
Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 44: They were so big and muscly their dicks would have looked incredibly small. | letter||
Black Tide (2012) [ebook] First, they shrink the dicks of the rich, then.. | ||
(con. 1990s) in One of the Guys 139: ‘She was suckin’ this dude’s dick’. | ||
Urban Grimshaw 3: There’s Greta, the junkie, the alcoholic – / only thing she’s addicted to more is dick. | ||
Truth 79: It didn’t give a shit about your life, your history, your colour, your complexes, the size of your dick. | ||
Eve. Standard 17 Feb. 51/4: ‘A dick and two balls’ can do and be everything else expected of the sculptor. | ||
🎵 Ride me dick, come over me feel the right time. | ‘Big Bumpa Gal’||
August Snow [ebook] ‘What you do with your dick is your business’. | ||
IOL News (Western Cape) 7 Nov. 🌐 Gigaba’s gesture feeds into toxic hyper-masculinity discourse and jealousy [...] over whose dick is bigger. | ||
Scrublands [ebook] Here’s the bit where you ask if he [...] showed me his dick, or asked me to kiss it. Or if he ever fucked me in the arse. | ||
Broken 7: ‘Too bad you got that mini dick’. | ‘Broken’ in||
Stoning 156: ‘[E]ver since she slapped me [...] my dick went limp’. | ||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 312: ‘Some of these keba girls are real hot. They’re as hungry for dick as normal people’. |
6. nothing, e.g. we ain’t got dick; not worth dick; also occas. attrib. [fig. use of sense 5, as with fuck n. (2a)/shit n. (3g)].
(con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 76: Dick, Money For: Money for nothing. | ||
(con. 1960s) Wanderers 161: You guys are a bunch of azzholes, all a you [...] You can’t fight wort’ dick. | ||
Totally True Diaries of an Eighties Roller Queen 🌐 14 Feb. He bought me a rose at least and I thanked him. He didn’t say dick about the carnation or the cookie. | ||
Finnegan’s Week 265: That bogus asshole don’t know dick about the real world. | ||
Human Stain 216: They didn’t do dick. They don’t know what war is. | ||
Pound for Pound 195: I ain’t made dick money on Chicky. | ||
🎵 What kind of fuckery are we? Nowadays you don’t mean dick to me. | ‘Me and Mr Jones’||
Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 8: A lot of us knowledgeable recruits who didn’t know dick thought that they would be best if used like the baseball ferries in warriors. | ||
🌐 We think we know horny upside-down and inside-out, but we don’t. Flay the flesh off ‘horny,’ and you quickly discover we don’t know dick. Everything we think we know about ‘horny’ is wrong. | in hazlitt.net 12 Feb.
7. (US black) a term of address between males.
New Yorker 3 July 28: The bebop people have a language of their own. They call each other Pops, Daddy, and Dick. |
8. sexual intercourse.
At Night All Cats Are Grey 197: Aren’t we only on the prowl after a tender little slice of dick? | ||
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976) 123: I heard rumours you’re giving Joan dick at last. | ||
No Surrender 66: The only regret I’ve ever had, Father, was that I never got enough dick. | ||
Workin’ It 167: Honey, I don’t know what attracted me to him. I guess I was hot in the ass and wanted some dick. | ||
This Is How You Lose Her 20: At least Rupert gives me some Grade A dick. | ||
Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Dick - heterosexual intercourse. | (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at
9. (US teen) an unattractive man, esp. one who has an overly high self-image.
Cotters’ England (1980) 11: You see? A dick [...] He’s all patches, a makeshift. I said, Now what act is that? And trying to get intimate with the maid. | ||
Heathers [film script] KK: What did your boyfriend say when you told him you were moving to Sherwood, Ohio? RA: Answer him, dick. |
10. a fool, an idiot, any offensive individual, usu. male.
Getting Straight 83: He looked the type. A dick, all right. | ||
Commitments 85: James Brown, yeh dick. | ||
Teenage Wasteland 93: Cops are dicks. | ||
Grits 293: Yer look like a right dick. | ||
Bug (Aus.) May 🌐 As long as Bunny did not give himself away as a total dick by speaking [etc.]. | ||
Cherry Pie [ebook] ‘Damn you, Chloe, you’ve fucked up my undercover operation, made a dick of yourself and pissed off somebody’s wife’. | ||
Guardian 23 June 🌐 ‘[Steve Barclay] was a total dick, a total control freak but also not very good at it,’ they told Hardman. | ||
Star Island (2011) 47: ‘Don’t be such a dick,’ Cherry told him. | ||
Thrill City [ebook] ‘Like Rod Thurlow?’ ‘That dick? The trouble with those alpha types is they’re like that all the time’. | ||
Riptide Ultra-Glide 128: That dick has wounded the dad’s image in their eyes. | ||
Insidious Intent (2018) 209: ‘I mean, I know he’s a dick, but to kill her?’. | ||
Cherry 41: The owner was a dick but not too bad. | ||
The Red Hand 43: ‘You wouldn’t want to picka fight with him [...] four young dicks made that mistake’. | ‘High Art’ in||
Young Team 13: ‘Or yir gittin shot wae this fuckin firework, ya eld dick’. | ||
Riker’s 178: I look like the biggest dick in the world. |
11. in fig. use, courage, ‘guts’, virility, ambition.
Spidertown (1994) 69: I climbed I came I saw I fucken fucked tha’ bitch [i.e. success] up the ass, Pop. Like did wha’chu didnt have the dick to do, Pop. |
12. (US) irritation, annoyance.
Price You Pay 170: Put that artwork in every corner like everywhere and then dick around [...] just so you’re really annoying. [...] As much dick as possible to no reasonable or respectable end. |
In derivatives
(US) upset (the inference being of challenged masculinity|) .
California Bear 55: Hightower seemed genuinely dickhurt. ‘After all I’ve done, you can’t even do me the courtesy of hearing me out?’. |
offensive, stupid.
Gone Girl 334: ‘You seem totally different than before. In charge but not cocky. Even your jaw is less . . . dickish’ . | ||
Happy Mutant Baby Pills 112: ‘So,’ I said, feeling dickish without doing anything to stop it, ‘is there somebody who makes money out of kids with defects and learning disorders?’. |
see separate entry.
macho, aggressively masculine.
Razorblade Tears 165: It wasn’t even business. Just some personal dick-swinging bullshit. |
In compounds
(US) a general insult; also attrib.
On the Bro’d 104: [S]ome dickbag cop made me move. |
a hand.
Corruption Officer [ebook] Ch. 28: Let me see ya dick beaters (hands). |
(US black) an over-emotional man, esp. as regards women.
Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 dick-bitch Definition: a guy that causes drama; especially over a female Example: Fine Honey: Goddamn! That fukker won’t leave me alone about my business... he actin like a dick-bitch. |
(US) an unsophisticated fool.
On the Bro’d 56: All these teenage dickbombs from town busted in. |
(US) a fool; thus a general derog. term.
oral testimony in HDAS I. | ||
Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 126: We don’t want your opinions, dick-brain! | ||
Skull Session 421: Don’t shoot your mouth off, dickbrain. | ||
Brown Bread in Wengen [ebook] ‘You reckon I want to take the fall for some fuckin’ MP dickbrain?’. | ||
You Got Nothing Coming 8: Don’t officer me, dickbrain. |
(US, also cock-breath, cunt-breath) an unpleasant person; the usu. implication is of a man-to-man fellator.
No Beast So Fierce 8: Look, dick breath motherfucker. Get off my mama’s back. | ||
Silent Terror 141: ‘You got a statement to make, Plunkey?’ I sneered à la Bogart. ‘You suck cock, dick breath?’. | ||
(con. c.1970) Phantom Blooper 197: Put that letter down, dick breath, or you will be wearing a stump sock on your neck. | ||
Rogue Warrior (1993) 29: Fuck you all very much, you merry murdering cockbreath shit-for-brains ass-holes. [Ibid.] 266: Leave those cocksucking, cunt-breath, pus-nuts [...] pencil-pushing Pentagon assholes to me. [Ibid.] 337: Okay, cockbreaths, we’ve gotten our act together. | ||
Six Out Seven (1994) 343: Shove that stick up your ass an try a few revolutions, dick-breath! | ||
Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] ‘Answer me, cockbreath.’ Those were his words. I felt scared. | ||
Plainclothes Naked (2002) 283: Keep your money, cock-breath. It’s probably diseased anyway. | ||
Big Ben Kennedy.com Journal 24 Jul. 🌐 ‘Can I not cuss for 3 hours?’ I should be able to, but just in case let me get it out of my system now... Shit, Fuck, Bitch, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, [...] Dick Breath. | ||
Knockemstiff 66: ‘Dickweed,’ Lucy called out to me [...] ‘Cock breath,’ she yipped. | ‘Giganthomachy’ in||
Frank Sinatra in a Blender [ebook] He asked me if I had a problem. ‘Of course I have a problem, cockbreath!’. | ||
Lives Laid Away [ebook] ‘Fuck you, dick-breath!’. |
(US) a fellator.
Flesh and Blood (1978) 26: ‘You mean he’s the boss fag?’ ‘You got it [...] Head dick-chewer.’. |
(US black) one who enjoys storing up rivalry between others.
Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 dick curd Definition: a person who finds pleasure in dicking another person over usually two males Example: You motha fuckin dick curd I ought to beat your ass black and blue for fuckin wit my lady. |
(Aus.) tight short male bathing trunks.
Aus. Word Map 🌐 I heard ‘DTs’ around Brisbane and near north and south coasts in the 80's, but the more colorful term was "Dick Daks". | ||
Aus. Word Map 🌐 [Hunter Valley informant] Have heard of the D.T's to be called dick sticks, lollie bags, sluggos. | ||
Aus. Word Map 🌐 ‘I’m from Newcastle and have used the terms Sluggos, dickstickers, budgie-smugglers and banana-hammock’. | ||
Aus. Word Map 🌐 dikdaks. the speedos worn by males. | ||
Lingo Dict. 77: dick bathers or dick stickers men’s Speedos or swimming briefs. Also dick-daks, dick pointers, dick togs or dick pokers. | ||
‘Aus. Sl.’ paper presented to Leicester U. Slang Workshop, Sept. 2012 n.p.: The speedo variety [of trunks] developed an extraordinary number of risqué or simply curious synonyms: [...] dick daks (daks is an Australian term for ‘trousers’), dick pointers (sometimes abbreviated to DPs), dick pokers, dick stickers, dick togs (sometimes abbreviated to DTs). |
(US) a large, drooping stomach.
Tattoo of a Naked Lady 69: Double chins jiggling and one helluva dick-do. [...] That’s when your belly hangs lower than your dick do. |
(US gay) semen.
Gay (S)language. |
(US) a general insult, lit. ‘fellating’; thus as n. dick-eater.
Thanatos 155: A queer, a dick-eater, a scummy pervert. | ||
Do or Die (1992) 177: You think you so down, you dick-eatin’ little homo. |
(orig. US campus) a general term of derision.
oral testimony in HDAS I. | ||
Christine 171: How did you like that, dickface? | ||
Totally True Diaries of an Eighties Roller Queen 🌐 17 Nov. Bill and I were kissing in the corridor and an old fashioned dick face teacher came by and told us if he caught us again he’d call our parents. Asshole. | ||
Lucky You 31: Then where’s our ticket, dickface? | ||
College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Dickface (noun) A jerk. (Usually referring to a male.). | ||
PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 236: All the way there Dick Features is crapping on about how him and Hennessy [etc.]. | ||
Squeeze Me 60: ‘What’s your problem, dickface?’’. |
(US) maladroit.
Texas Crude 108: Dick-fingered, Maladroit. ‘He’s so dick-fingered he can’t pick his nose without puttin’ his eye out.’. |
(Aus.) a general term of abuse.
Candy 137: What do I do all day? Listen to this, dickfuck. |
(US black) sexual ability and technique.
? (Pronounced Que) [ebook] She wanted him to know the pussy was his when he wanted it. He already knew that because his dick game was crazy. |
see separate entries.
a general term of abuse, thus adj. dickholey; also attrib.
This Is How You Lose Her 111: He called me a dickhole. I’d say that was promising. | ||
On the Bro’d 19: [H]e seemed he’d be pretty dickholey. | ||
On the Bro’d 84: You’re a textbook dickhole douchebag like all the other dickhole douchebags. | ||
Swollen Red Sun 129: ‘Hey, dickhole, you still with me?’. |
1. (US black) a promiscuous woman.
Juba to Jive 135: Dickhound n. (1980s) a woman who has many sexual partners; a slut. | ||
RogReviews.com 🌐 If the two position fuck feels a little rushed, it is only so he can go back to doggy to fuck this Dutch dickhound in her hot little asshole. |
2. (US gay) a promiscuous male homosexual.
JohnsBooks.com 🌐 NEW YORK CITY – One day in the life of a dickhound. Scene: a very cruisey tearoom, a good reason to visit Manhattan. | ||
🌐 Sloan also made no secret of the fact that he was a true dickhound. He loved sucking, fucking... hell, he just loved men. | ‘Fratbears Pt 1’ at fratbear.tripod.com
see dickwit
see separate entries.
(UK black) a condom.
(con. 1979–80) Brixton Rock (2004) 143: Some man fling their dick macs in der after they just done use it. | ||
Dirty South 91: Get some protection [...] the normal dick macs. |
(US) a thoughtless, cruel action.
Chicago Trib. ‘The Onion’ 1 Nov. TAB-5/2: Abnormally growing cells consistently make the ‘complete dick move’ of producing false-positive signals. Cancer cell mutate into even cockier pissants . | ||
UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2014 4: DICK MOVE — a callous action: X: ‘You asked her out knowing that I’ve liked her for the past two months?’ Y: ‘Sorry, man. That was a dick move. She said no if that makes you feel any better.’. | ||
Guardian 20 July 🌐 [S]imply suspending parliament – which would have been a dictator’s move as well as a dick move. | ||
Seven Demons 46: I do not do crushing handshakes in my world they are a dick move. |
(US) a derog. term of abuse, lit. fellator.
www.deviantart.com 17 Aug. 🌐 And you say I am insane your the fucking stupid one you little dick! I hope you BURN burn. In the fires of hell you fucking dick muncher! | ||
Urban Dict. 1 June 🌐 dick muncher [...] b) a derogatory term used mostly on guys when they are acting strange, annoying, assholes, etc. | ||
Hard Bounce [ebook] Junior sneezed hard into his hand. It sounded quite a lot like ‘dickmuncher,’ but I could have been wrong. |
(US) something outstanding, exceptional of its type.
Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 197: I made a stavin, stirrin speech. It must of been a ring-tail dick nailer, for the crowd was all with me at the finish. | in Hudson
(orig. US) a general term of derision.
Psychotic Reactions (1988) 196: Which makes him more human than the rest of those MOR dicknoses. | in||
Tracks (Aus.) Aug. 5: And this dicknose gives advice to all ‘great guys’ out there to select your ‘scrubber’, or ‘bushie’ before you start coming out of your pretentious shell and acting like a typical macho-yob-aussie [Moore 1993]. | ||
Rude Behavior 70: ‘Somewhere in the middle of all this, I’ll find myself smiling at a dicknose in the health department’. |
a male prostitute who takes only active roles with his clients.
Sex Variants. | ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry||
Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 11: dick peddler (n.): A male prostitute with homosexual clients. [Ibid.] 37: prick peddler (n.): The male prostitute. | ||
Queens’ Vernacular 111: a male prostitute [...] dick peddler [...] prick peddler. | ||
Quiet Fire 74: The little male prostitute, prick peddler, if you say ‘Hmmm, you’re not what I’m looking for, fella, I like the fems, the ladies,’ they quickly find that maybe they could do that. |
(Aus.) a ‘speedo’ type of male bathing costume.
Aus. Word Map 🌐 dick-pointers speedo style bathers. |
1. a contraceptive sheath.
Rope Burns 211: Fuck wit Air Jordan you find you ass scatter around town like used dick sacks on Saturday night. |
2. the scrotum.
🌐 Aaron tried to imagine a scientist rolling a dog on its back and powdering its balls and dick sack. | Show Must Go On||
Speed Bump Mannequin 🌐 She’d bashed my dick sack but good! Karen pulled my underwear down before I could think about it any further. ‘Geez, they’re kinda reddish purple. Is that the normal color a man’s things are?’. |
a general derog. description.
Our Fathers 8: Total wanker. Dickshaft. A right good kicking he’s needing. |
1. (orig. US) absolutely nothing; always used with a qualifying negative v., e.g. you don’t know dick shit about... etc.
in Maledicta VIII 236: Without a good set of choppers, you can’t do dick-shit in this town. |
2. (US) derog. term of contempt.
Dirty Words [ebook] ‘Man, I wish I had that dickshit’s money’. | ‘Dirty Laundry’ in
(US) an unpleasant person.
God’s Pocket 251: There were as many dick shrivelers that wanted to ban nuclear sites and love the brother as there were that wanted to bomb Russia. |
(US) hands.
(con. 1968) Citadel (1989) 90: This particular piece of shit is worth about a thousand bucks. Or it was before you got your dick-skinners on it. | ||
Knockemstiff 4: Hard to tell where he’s had those dick skinners. | ‘Real Life’ in||
Cherry 59: Our hands were dick skinners. Our mouths were cock holsters. Our enemy was Haji. Our friends were battle buddies. |
a semen stain; thus, an incompetent, unpleasant, unpopular person.
OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 dicksplash adj. Person of diminished intelligence or capability. e.g.applied to a person who performs an act incorrectly. |
(US) general term of abuse.
Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] ‘You two dick stains didn’t even check to see if they’s packin’ heat’. | ‘Hill Clan Cross’ in
1. (US black) the notional governor of a man’s ability to attain an erection.
Down These Mean Streets (1970) 157: Ah hopes yuh busted his dick string. |
2. (US) a general insult.
OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 dickstring adj. someone stupid and deserving of contempt. |
see separate entries.
(US) boasting, macho display.
Blacktop Wasteland 2: Under the sound of the boasting and dick swinging, Beau heard an unmistakable ticking. |
general term of abuse.
Rough Trade [ebook] ‘Whaddaya mean, what did he say? About you?’ ‘No, about Kiss, dicktard’. |
see separate entries.
(US campus) something characteristically associated with men.
Mo’ Better Blues [film script] It’s a dick thang . . . a dick thang. | ||
Afrikan Students Union (Ohio University) 20 Aug. 🌐 I believe it was Bell Hooks who said: ‘If the reclamation of the Black Race gets translated into a dick thang, then we’re in trouble.’. |
(US campus) something that concerns men and/or masculinity.
Campus Sl. Fall. | ||
Sl. and Sociability 51: Dick, on the other hand, retains clear association with maleness in the expression dick thing, which means ‘characteristically associated with males’. |
1. a fool, an idiot, an unpleasant person.
Sl. U. | ||
Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 dickwad (adjective) someone who acts like a jerk. Asshole.‘Eat me, you fucking dickwad.’. | ||
(con. 1998–2000) You Got Nothing Coming 7: There’s no mistake, dickwad. You were arrested on Murder One with a deadly weapon. That’s a capital crime in this state. | ||
Mad mag. May 45: Somehow convincing the world that your nickname should be ‘The Donald’ instead of more appropriate monikers like ‘The Dickwad’ [or] ‘The Deadbeat’. | ||
Cherry Pie [ebook] ‘This smarmy little dickwad, Nolan, thinks Andi’s pissed off’. | ||
The Force [ebook] ‘Maybe you have me confused with one of your usual Southern District, prep school Ivy League dickwads’. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
Plainclothes Naked (2002) 140: Nothing enraged an abusee like having some male cop buddy up to her dickwad boyfriend or husband. |
a general derog. description.
in Guardian 30 June 🌐 I don't know who coined it, but I saw Gove referred to as ‘dickweasel’. Rather appropriate, don’t you think? | ||
Gone Girl 122: ‘Mr. Binks was a cheating dickweasel, but, you know, marriage is compromise’. |
1. a fool; also attrib.
Sl. U. | ||
Campus Sl. Oct. 2: dickweed – socially inept person, loser. | ||
Mad mag. Apr. 13: Of course, give her a hand, dickweed! | ||
Da Bomb Summer Supplement 5: Dickweed (n.) A jerk. | ||
Dreamcatcher 152: Come on, you dickweed. | ||
Pulp Ink [ebook] He was the man with a plan [...] Not his dickweed son. | ‘You Never Can Tell’ in||
Rough Trade [ebook] ‘The guy is a serious dickweed’. |
2. (also dick wheat) the pubic hair.
Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: dick wheat US n. Male pubic hair. Also dick weed. |
(N.Z.) a fool, lit. a masturbator.
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. |
(US black) of a woman, so besotted with her lover that she allows herself to be exploited and generally treated badly.
Black Talk. |
(US) a general term of abuse.
Wayne’s World [film script] Wayne: My take on it? I would have to say a dickwipe says what. | et al.||
Triggerfish Twist (2002) 287: Wait till I get my hands on the little dick-wipe! |
(Aus. teen) a general insult.
Lingo 104: Generalised insults included dick-wipe/knob/head/wit, doodle-head/brain. |
In phrases
1. very thin.
[ | Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 104: The man next him, all teeth and hair, like a rat-catcher’s dog, is an Honourable by birth]. | |
Cockforum.com 🌐 My mates call me ‘allRibsandDick’ cause I’m just that – there’ s only thing on me that gets FAT! | ||
Rock and Roll Mountains [ebook] Dressed in black [...] and whippet-thin, he looked like a gypsy’s dog, all ribs and dick . | ||
Peace 7: The kelpie halted, skin and bone, ribs and prick. |
2. in fig. use, nothing.
‘Net Lingo’ www.netlingo.com 🌐 We’ve got ribs ’n’ dick and we’re supposed to find 20K for memory upgrades. |
(US) to get into trouble; to die.
Underground Dict. (1972) 43: buy the dick v. 1. Get into trouble; get hurt. 2. Die — eg. He bought the dick through an overdose. |
(US) to be caught in an embarrassing or generally disadvantageous situation, thus vtr leave holding one’s dick, to place in a difficult situation.
🌐 ‘Rumsfeld caught holding his dick’ As we see here, defense secretary Rumsfeld was allegedly overseeing chemical arms dealing in Iraq back in ’83. | KarmaBanque||
Brotherhood of Corruption 132: ‘We don’t wanna be waiting at the door with our dicks in our hands, junior’. | ||
Generation Nihilism 25 Jan. 🌐 I don’t know if she still has the boyfriend or not and I don’t want to get caught holding my dick again. | ||
(con. 1962) Enchanters 135: ‘They’ve got all the copies of my evidence [...] which leaves us holding our dicks’. |
see under devil n.
(US) something extremely unpleasant, the image is of sodomy.
Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘Ain’t that a dick in the ass.’ ‘Yeah’. |
an unproductive person.
Artefacts of the Dead [ebook] The usual hubbub of hangers-on and dicks-in-the-wind. |
(US black) to toady to, to praise excessively.
Urban Dict. 16 May 🌐 Wow ESPN loves to dick ride the Yankees! | ||
🎵 You know haters gon’ dickride they gon’ still suck you. | ‘Eat’
(of a man) to have sexual intercourse.
Glitter Dome (1982) 260: Dipped your dick in a few stray dishes, eh, Al? |
to do with ease, esp. to endure any challenging situation, e.g. a prison sentence, with no difficulty.
Sir, You Bastard 64: Six years, I’ll do that on my prick. |
(US black teen) a general phr. of dislike or dismissal.
🎵 Eazy-E can eat a big fat dick / Tim Dog can eat a big fat dick. | ‘Fuck Wit Dre Day’||
Source Oct. 95: The underground can eat you alive, but they can eat my dick. | ||
🎵 But all you bitch ass niggaz talkin down in ya records, you can eat a dick! | ‘Quit Hatin’ The South’||
Cherry 87: ‘What did you say?’ ‘Eat a fucking dick’. | ||
Back to the Dirt 35: ‘[E]at a dick, with you and your birth control glasses’. |
1. (US) of a man, to have sexual intercourse.
Yellow Birds 61: I remembered a cav scout in Al Tafar writing down the address for me [...] ‘Best fucking place in history to get your dick wet. Fucking crucial’. | ||
The Force [ebook] ‘What’s he doing there?’ [...] ‘Gettin’ his dick wet’. |
2. (US) to lose a fig. virginity, to make some form of committment, to act after procrastinating.
Border [ebook] ‘You gotta get your dick wet, Ric [...] You gotta fuck the Skinny Lady [...] Don’t worry, I’ll help you pop your cherry’. |
to accede to sexual advances.
Chosen Few (1966) 85: You are gonna persuade him to take Tan back to town and if you hafta give up some dick to do it, GIVE IT up! You can wash it off later. |
(US black) to challenge aggressively.
Wire ser. 4 ep. 3 [TV script] He want to go big dick with me, I’ll show him one he can’t handle. | ‘Home Rooms’||
boxingscene.com 13 Sept. 🌐 Commissioner Jon Lewis attempted to go big dick with the the various sanctioning bodies involved. | ||
youtube 21 Aug. 🌐 In 2002 he said he wanted to ‘unleash the forces of freedom’, well here you go Big Dick with ISIS! |
(US black) to boast, to brag.
Buppies, B-Boys, Baps and Bohos (1994) 87: Several Mambazo songs celebrate the group’s badness [...] in other words they were grabbing their dicks. | ‘Kool Moe Dee & L.L. Cool J’ in||
Indep. Rev. 20 Apr. 7: It’s much easier to be a hip-hop boy and grab your balls and be cool than to show your feelings. |
(US) of a man, to be sexually successful.
(con. 1985–90) In Search of Respect 97: phillipe: [You are] the head man on the block with so many girlfriends. primo: I might have women on my dick right now, but I would be much cooler if I was working legal. | ||
Jesus Cries When You Touch Yourself 66: But if I’m Jesus, if I’m famous and have millions of women on my dick, why should I be concerned about how many imaginary friends you have? |
(US) to be in serious trouble.
🎵 I got ready to pull the mack out / [...] / Unloaded the pistol now dirt is now what his dick’s in. | ‘That’s Why I Carry’||
Rope Burns 109: If it was your hamstring, your dick is already in the dirt. |
to appear as foolish, humiliated, powerless.
Gone Girl 253: I’m not moving forward with my dick in one hand and a wild story about a frame-up in the other. Unless you convince me. | ||
Hard Stuff 120: With his back to us, he began speaking on the phone in French. Fred and I stood there with our dicks in our hands. |
to act calmly, in sexual contexts or otherwise; often as imper. keep your dick in your pants!
Rat on Fire (1982) 27: You can just keep your dick in your pants until we get these guys set up for you to fuck them. | ||
Florida Roadkill 238: Keep it in your pants [...] We’re not caught yet. | ||
Big Ask 223: Put it back in your pants, Murray [...] Or I’ll have you arrested. | ||
Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy 90: If you want to be successful in maintaining a lasting relationship with professional prostitutes keep your dick in your pants until you have been properly chosen. | ||
Unexpected Interruptions 253: Don’t blame me because you couldn’t keep your dick in your pants! |
1. to knock down; to kill; also fig.
Semi-Tough 50: ‘Don’t that mother [i.e. a sentimental song] knock your dicks in the dirt?’ Elroy asked. | ||
Ambush Murders 121: Hey, I’m gonna knock your dick in the dirt if you fuck up. | ||
Taste of Power 125: We’ll put his dick in the dirt, Bunchy. | ||
Admiral’s Son 27: You kiss me and I’ll knock your dick in the dirt, y’hear? | ||
Thank You, Goodnight 303: If you ever pull that shit with me again, I will knock your dick in the dirt!'. |
2. (US gay) to share good marijuana with a friend.
Queens’ Vernacular 122: knock somebody’s dick In the dirt to supply a friend with excellent marijuana; to share a joint with a buddy; to turn somebody on to some fine shit. |
3. to astound.
Jambeaux 46: He read it over to make sure he was really seeing it correctly. ‘Listen up, here, you shitbirds, this’ll knock your dick in the dirt.’ And Page read them the schedule . | ||
Man Who Just Didn’t Care 96: Everybody knew that Cookin’ could make a dinner that would knock your dick in the dirt. | ||
Track of the Dragon 34: This here’s ‘Mekong’ whiskey, an’ if it don’t knock yer dick in the dirt, ain’ nothin’ ever will. |
4. to defeat, to punish.
Game Behind the Game 158: The one thing that counted in pro football: a passion for ‘knocking somebody's dick in the dirt’. | ||
Rope Burns 61: No matter how tough you are, my friend, those cocksuckers will knock your dick in the dirt. | ||
Lincoln Lawyer n.p.: I want to know everything there is to know about the guy so I can put his dick in the dirt. | ||
Wes Daddy Mack Hour 256: I’m trying to kick your dick in the dirt. Having you feeling so low that you’re having second thoughts. |
5. to render (temporarily) impotent.
Shack 107: A friend of my once said that some antidepressants put his ‘dick in the dirt’. |
to defeat comprehensively, to beat up.
Semi-Tough 236: The thing I’ve been talking about all week, which is knock the dicks off the dog-ass Jets. | ||
Semi-Tough 43: ‘You’re going to get your cock knocked off Sunday but you’re a good looking son of a bitch,’ he said. |
(orig. US black) of a man, blinded by sexual desire.
Infernal Tower 71: There was a feeling that [...] she had been promoted beyond her level, was carrying too much clout — and that Aldworth was being led by his dick, which wasn’t good for Barclays. | ||
🌐 I know that when he is an ass its because HE IS AN ASS not because hes a boy that is led by his dick so much that his brain has melted. | blog 30 Nov. at Blogspot.com||
Calm Before Storm 177: I thought you were cleverer than this but I guess when it comes down to it you're just like any other male of the species, led by his dick . |
1. keen on, supporting.
🎵 Jack B. (Nimble) was (nimble) and he was (quick) / But Jam (Master) cut (faster), Jacks on Jay’s dick. | ‘Peter Piper’||
🎵 I just got had a call from a bitch at the PA P.D. that’s on my dick. | ‘Feds in Town’||
🎵 To be honest I am completely on his dick. | ‘Seems 2 Be’
2. oppressing, nagging, harassing; thus opposite off someone’s dick.
Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 skeeza Definition: sleezy slut. Example: This skeeza be on my dick but I’m not havin it. | ||
Portable Promised Land (ms.) 159: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Get off my dick. Talkin out your neck. Talkin all that jazz. | ||
No Lights, No Sirens 167: ‘[T]hey must’ve thought he was papering us or think we been on his dick to get padded’. | ||
🎵 I ain’t got nuttin for you, can’t loan you shit / Don’t you hate when broke niggaz be on yo’ dick? | ‘Life Is 2009’||
🎵 Niggas screaming ‘674 stabbed this, and 674 corned that’ / I’m like ‘bitch niggas get off our dick’. | ‘Live Corn’
(US black) of a woman, to be ready for sexual activity.
🎵 Plus, they on the dick cause the Caddy’s plush. | ‘Ackrite’
1. lit. to masturbate; thus dick-pulling n., masturbation; also in fig. use, to talk nonsense; in tr. sense, to tease, to deceive.
(con. 1945–6) Devil’s Jump (2008) 13: The Joint Committee on dick pulling or whatever it was called. | ||
One Big Damn Puzzler 51: ‘Come on out, I know you’re pulling your dick off in there!’ screamed Sandy. |
2. to waste time, to act pointlessly.
Delicious 67: If it wasn’t for me you would be pulling your dick down on Wall Street somewhere. |
to tease, to deceive.
Tracks (Aus.) Dec. n.p.: What Bob Rawke surf team member could afford it. Some have trouble forking out the standard $375 clear shooter, fuck it, leave it in the good old US of Arseholes, the wanker must have been pulling his dick [Moore 1993]. | ||
Teen Dreams 76: ‘Why are you pulling my dick?’ she asks Veronica. |
to make a fool of oneself; to blunder badly.
Joint (1972) 21: Well, I tried to hang it up, and with my usual flair, I stepped on my dick. | letter 21 June in||
Commissioner 44: Two of what our Chief Inspector [...] calls ‘slashing detectives,’ but that some of us calls ‘headline hunters’ have just stepped all over their whangs this morning. | ||
Hell’s Angels (1967) 47: ‘Look at this,’ he said, ‘– stepped on his prick again.’. | ||
Essential Lenny Bruce 100: An attorney [...] who would’ve stepped on his dick the whole time. | ||
Doom Pussy 215: Man, we really stepped on our foreskins this time. | ||
(con. 1969–70) F.N.G. (1988) 117: Somebody stepped on his dick in this move. They shoulda got us here a lot earlier yesterday. | ||
(con. c.1970) Phantom Blooper 15: A few weeks ago you were the hot-rod king of some hillbilly high school, stumbling around in front of all the girls and stepping on your dick. | ||
Night Dogs 368: ‘Try not to step on your dick anymore’. | ||
(con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 88: The Arden move was très dumb. Ward tripped on his dick — at a très bad time. | ||
Wire ser. 2 ep. 4 [TV script] If this case doesn’t fall, we’re all going to be stepping on our dicks trying to explain what happened. | ‘Hard Cases’||
Lush Life 272: He’d just stepped on his dick big-time . | ||
(con. 1962) Enchanters 238: That kidnap deal [...] He stepped on his dick there. |
1. (US) of a woman, wholly heterosexual.
I Left My Back Door Open 49: ‘Well, for the record, I’m strictly dickly,’ Tyeesha informed me. | ||
Between Secrets 8: ‘I think she likes you girl!’ I said jokingly. ‘HA! Whatever! I’m strictly dickly and I don't eat fur burgers!’ . | ||
Azucar Moreno 72: She’s strictly dickly like us. Hell, quiet as she tries to keep it, she's gets more dick than we do. | ||
Girl Wide Web 2.0 56: Several of the heterosexual girls provided their own descriptions of their sexual orientations, such as "I love dick," "Dick," "I love boys," "Strictly Dickly" [...] In general the girls who identified as ‘strictly dickly’ exhibited homophobic attitudes and adopted this terminology to warn their audience that they are only interested in dating men. | ||
Every D-boy’s Dream [ebook] "I was being to think she turned gay on me.’ ‘Strictly dickly, baby. Strictly dickly’. |
2. of a gay man or woman, wholly homosexual.
Groove 256: Sitting on my bed with a dozen or more pamphlets spread out around me. When Good Gay Men Go Straight, Curbing Your Cravings for Vagina, How to Stay Strictly Dickly: The Pussy-Free Diet . | ||
All That Glitters Isn't Gold 348: ‘I must admit, sometimes I wish you were strictly dickly so you could save me from all the evil men in the world.’ ‘So if I were gay, you would date me?’ ‘Absolutely,’ I said. | ||
Salon.com 20 Nov. 🌐 I have never [...] noticed any evidence that these men are anything but what we in the biz call ‘strictly dickly’. |
1. to perform fellatio; thus in n .use, a sycophant.
Screening the Blues (1968) 240: Your sister loves to fuck and your brother sucks dick, / He’s a suckin’ motherfucker, cocksucker. | ‘The Dirty Dozen’ in Oliver||
Listen to the Silence 143: Hey punk I hear you suck dick, Barney one of the colored Mafia says. | ||
After Delores n.p.: ‘I know you suck dick.’ ‘I do not suck dick. I eat pussy.’ ‘Do you suck ass too, or do you only suck dick?’ ‘You suck dick, I don’t suck dick.’. | ||
Times Square Hustler 54: I never sucked a dick. | ||
Vatican Bloodbath 9: Your neighbour is the slave boy who gots to suck Roman dick cos his ass is a different colour. | ||
(con. 1972) Circle of Six 144: I was tired of being undermined by these pricks, tired of being the sappy suck-dick to him and the miserable gutless pissants he had colluded with. | ||
(con. 1973) Johnny Porno 1476: Looking for broads dopey enough to think it’s glamorous sucking dick on film. |
2. (US) to be valueless.
Leather Maiden 164: ‘Everything else for me sucks the big old donkey dong’. |
(orig. US) to flatter, to toady to, to congratulate effusively.
Low Company 172: Then you’ll want to know me but you can suck my goddammed can all day then. | ||
Deep Down In The Jungle 47: Sucking dicks ain’t no tricks. | ||
in Buppies, B-Boys, Baps and Bohos (1994) 58: That guy can only suck my dick when he sees me [...] I’m invaluable to the success of his company. | ‘Rappin’ with Russell’ in||
Pulp Fiction [film script] 134: Let’s not start suckin’ each others dicks quite yet. | ||
Hooky Gear 147: An I aint even gonna ask you to kiss my dick. | ||
Snitch Jacket 194: You’re better than Jack Daniels himself for giving me balls [...] And that’s the first and last time I suck your dick. | ||
Kill Your Friends (2009) 72: You didn’t have to take anyone out to dinner and suck their dick. |
see under swinging adj.2
(US black) to take an unfair share (of profits).
Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 156: But the Syndicate took all of the hard out of the dick, and soon Fats was earning more from his sausage than his numbers. |
(US) to have a high (but unjustifiable) view of one’s own physical attractiveness.
Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 111: You layin’ around here thinkin’ you got sugar on your dick, / why the look on your face makes my pussy sick. |
In exclamations
(US) an excl. of disdain, disbelief.
Boys of Summer 91: When Leo Durocher, then married to the Mormon actress Laraine Day, shouted at Jackie Robinson, ‘My dick to you,’ Robinson [...] cried, ‘Give it to Laraine. She needs it more than I do’ . | ||
Glitter Dome (1982) 15: It’s this Glitter Dome piss you’re drinkin. Irish whiskey, my dick. Wing has it brewed on the shores a Lake Mojave by a gang a bootleggers. |
see under suck v.1