Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a general derisive or derog. adj.

1943		P. Larkin letter 8 Nov. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 83: FUCK THIS ARSEHOLING TYPEWRITER WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH THE SODDING THING????
1958		K. Amis letter 30 July in Leader (2000) 540: Filling in my ARSEHOLING forms for those BLAZING CRAPS at the Fulbright Foundation.
1966		G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 88: Them arseholing sods have had Pee [...] Fucking bastards kept Pee in, told me to bugger off.
1969		‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 274: I couldn’t lose Rachel [...] to some ass-hole con player.
1978		R. Caron Go-Boy! 259: The asshole screws are too fuckin’ scared to come on to the ward.
1985		J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 161: The arsehole press is giving her a big show, she must be playing their game.
1992		B. Anderson Portrait Artist’s Wife 284: A lot was needed as an antidote to Sarah’s frozen mitt, her hairy eyeball, her arsehole attitude.
1996		J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 298: As pure arsehole, sour luck would have it the giant nag and his young claimer have another horse on their outside.
2000		P. Howard Miseducation of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (2004) 83: [It’s] only Knob Brain with his orsehole solicitor.
2008		Independent 22 Dec. 3/1: The rogue insult – which specifically referred to ‘The arsehole Bishop of Rochester’ – appeared in a confidential list of job vacancies.
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.