dickassn.
/ˈdɪkas/, U.S. /ˈdɪkˌæs/ 1. regional. A male ass or donkey; cf. jackass n.1 1. Now rare.
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1825 Examiner 25 Sept. 618/1 In Essex the ass was always called Dick-ass—‘Ho, my Dickey!’
1829 Hist. Judith Potts iii. 34 Come along with me, and thou shalt ride my Dick-ass.
1953 K. M. Briggs Personnel of Fairyland Gloss. 216 Picktree Brag, this is a Durham version of the bogie beast. It appears in various forms, sometimes as a horse, sometimes as a calf or a dick ass.
2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). An obnoxious or idiotic person (esp. a male).
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1988 C. F. Borgman River Road 156 The dudes crossing the bay from Walnut Creek with Kerouac underarm? This is the seventies, dickass!
2017 @voidofdevices 4 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Bands letting the attention go their head is a pet peeve, suddenly you have a following & you're acting like a dickass.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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