asshole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: assholes
form: arsehole
form: asswhole
form: basshole
Etymology: Variant of earlier arsehole, from Middle English arshole, arcehoole, equivalent to ass + hole. Cognate with Norwegian rasshøl (“asshole”), Swedish arsle (“asshole”). Compare also German Arschloch (“asshole”). Attested from the 1370s, replacing earlier Old English earsþyrel (“anus”, literally “ass hole”).
First recorded in Middle English, as ers hole (Glouc. Cath. Manuscript 19. No. I., dated 1379, cited after OED), ars-hole (Bodleian Ashmole MS. 1396, dated ca. 1400, ed. Robert Von Fleischhacker as Lanfrank's "Science of Cirurgie", EETS 102, 1894, cited after OED.) Slang figurative usage dates to the 20th century; it was used of an uninviting place (compare shithole) in the 1920s, and then of an anti-social or despicable person from at least the 1950s (Harvard Advocate 137, March 1954). It is also used appositionally (as in "You're an asshole moralist", T. Chamales, 1957).
Senses: examples: text: That homemade hot sauce of yours got me twice, both coming and going. My asshole is still sore.
text: She said she couldn't wiggle when she had the doorknob in her asshole.
ref: 1910, “Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York Third Department”, in Google Books, retrieved 27 Jul 2014:
text: 'You talk as if you were born without an asshole,' he cried to Commander Semmes.
ref: 1954, Ira Wolfert, An Act of Love: A Completely Retold Version of the Novel, →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: The anus.
examples: text: My former landlord was a world-class asshole. Fortunately my current landlord is an actual human being.
text: He philosophised all day about Morandi, Klee, Miró and Picasso, and was such an asshole that he spelled "cunt" with a "d".
ref: 1965, Jan Cremer, translated by R. E. Wyngaard and Alexander Trocchi, I, Jan Cremer, →OCLC, page 78:
text: They are the assholes for thinking they and their little crotch-spawn were special and exempt from the event guidelines.
ref: 2018 December 22, Ellen Scott, “Is this bride in the wrong for kicking a crying kid out of her wedding?”, in Metro:
glosses: A jerk; an inappropriately or objectionably mean, inconsiderate, contemptible, obnoxious, intrusive, stupid, or rude person.
examples: text: Welcome to the Northeast, the asshole of America.
text: You oughta have better sense than to trust anyone with anything in this asshole place.
ref: 1976, Felix Goodson, Sweet Salt, →ISBN, page 254:
text: ... but when he started bugging the bartender to shut the asshole TV off because he wanted to have a serious discussion...
ref: 1979, Ronald Sukenick, Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues, →ISBN, page 83:
synonyms: butthole
;
armpit
;
shithole
;
dump
qualifier: often appositional
glosses: Anything (especially a place) that is unpleasant or undesirable.
Synonyms: sense: contemptible person
word: jerk
sense: contemptible person
word: dick
word: anus
word: jerk
word: or Thesaurus:antonyms of pleasant
Derived terms: askhole
asshole buddy
assholed
assholedom
assholehood
assholeness
assholery
assholey
assholic
assholish
assholism
assholocene
asstard
cockhole
dickhole
douchehole
frathole
glasshole
harasshole
jackhole
jerkhole
maskhole
Masshole
opinions are like assholes
paxhole
rip someone a new asshole
tear someone a new asshole
vaxhole
Related terms: sense: a jerk or rude person
word: dumbass
sense: a jerk or rude person
word: assclown
sense: a jerk or rude person
word: asshat