Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) general term of abuse or familiarity, spec. a pervert; also attrib.

1970		J. Wambaugh New Centurions 43: ‘You a Chicano, Serge?’ ‘What do you think, pendejo?’.
1986		J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 27: ‘I can't take none of your rock and roll rap today, pindejo’ [sic].
1993		L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 50: He’s acting the pendejo because his brother thinks he so bad. Well, he ain’t shit.
2000		R. Antoni Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales 110: That pendejo Kentucky had practised every kind of wicked perversion on me all night long.
[2012		J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 5: She might be nobody’s pendeja but she’s also a forgiving soul].
2013		J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 113: The owner, orginally from Juárez [...] chuckled sourly, ‘Thanks for the tip, pendejo’.
2015		P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 86: Puto? I got your puto right here, pendejo!
2019		S.M. Jones Lives Laid Away [ebook] ‘[O]ne of you pendejo motherfuckers put his hands on my wife’.
2020		D. Winslow ‘Broken’ in Broken 50: ‘We take care of these pendejos up here’.
2024		C. Stella Joey Piss Pot 312: ‘Kiss your career goodbye, pendejo’.