Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. Aus.) a general term of derision.

1970		A. Buzo et al. Four Aus. Plays 89: Ooh, temper! Well, ta-ta for now, fuckwit.
1979		D. Maitland Breaking Out 63: The lamebrained racist fuckwit had articulated something unspeakable.
1982		H. Beaton Outside In Act II: sandy: You’re a fucken cunt! kate: You’re a fuckwit – sandy: You’re jealous!
1998		I. Welsh Filth 39: The fuckwit pockets the coins and speeds off.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 468: Down’t ya hate fuckwits oo say ‘I’m afraid’ as they deny ya sammink?
2009		J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 15: So there he was, in a hole, with an a-hole job, in some fuck-wit city.
2012		T. Robinson ‘Saint of Gunners’ in Dirty Words [ebook] Thing about fuckwits like Elvis? They never seem to get that the turf they considered ‘theirs’ was only due to the grace of God.
2012		F. McCarthy ‘Some Protection’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] Mac doing the Bay [...] In jail he’d had a few blues, taking on fat fuckwit bikies.
2017		G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘You won’t be this lucky again, you fuckwit’.
2020		D. Whish-Wilson Shore Leave 150: The other Nazi fuckwits.

2. (also F-wit) a fool; thus fuckwit, adj., stupid, foolish .

1969		A. Buzo Front Room Boys 89: Ooh, temper! Well, ta-ta for now, fuckwit.
1972		J. Hibberd A Stretch of the Imagination (2000) 140: You two-timing, fuck-witted mongrel of a slut!
1970		Woroni (Canberra) 30 Jun 2/2: As a fuckwit forester I support Malcolm Colton’s contention that the foresters are a group of intellectual morons who gain security from their mob existence, which is a direct result of the hostility shown them by the rest of the campus.
1974		Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 77: A new screw, a fuckwit, thought he saw something pass between the two prisoners.
1975		Ribald (Sydney) 13 Nov. 7/2: I say piss him off and other foreign fuckwits.
1979		D. Maitland Breaking Out 169: You are a bloody [...] fuck-witted [...] fart-faced flip of a fucking galah!
1979		Meanjin (Melbourne) xxxviii 464: It sounded like a load of fuck-wit shit to me.
1989		B. Reed ‘Messman on C.E.’s Altar’ in Passing Strange (2015) 25: Thousands caught in the [...] traffic jam for hours [...] would’ve given their eyeteeth to get that fuckwit said to have started it all.
1999		Guardian G2 30 Sept. 22: You’re dull as shit, you’re a fuckwit.
2001		N. Barlay Hooky Gear 59: Few secs later I’m starin like a fuckwit at the stains on the bar.
2004		C. Hiaasen Skinny Dip 209: I told you he was a fuckwit.
2005		P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Lots of fuckwits but ... I don’t know. It didn’t feel like a job.
2007		N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 120: Being a fuckwit, he had stashed it [i.e. the escape kit] all under his bed.
2011		J.J. Connolly Viva La Madness 11: Some guys don’t really mind indulging fuckwits.
2012		F. McCarthy ‘Some Protection’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] F-wits probably switched to the wrong channel.
2016		V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 217: ‘You naive fuckwit!’.
2020		G. Disher Consolation 70: Murmuring, ‘Fuckwit,’ Hirsch positioned his police Toyota beside Sergeant Brandl.