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单词 butt-head
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butt-headn.1

Brit. /ˈbʌthɛd/, U.S. /ˈbətˌhɛd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: butt n.6, head n.1
Etymology: < butt n.6 + head n.1With sense 1 compare earlier butt end n.1 1. With sense 3 compare earlier butt-headed adj. 1 and also asshead n.
1. Apparently: the thick end of a weapon's handle. Cf. butt end n.1 1. Obsolete rare.
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the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [noun] > thick end of anything
buttc1425
butt end1548
butt-head1630
chump1861
stub-end1875
1630 J. Mead Let. (1883) 23 Jan. (B.L. MS. Harley 390) f. 489 Rockes, lakes, or mosses like boggs which a man might thrust a pike downe to the butt head in.
2. U.S. regional (chiefly southern). A cow with no horns. Also attributive. Cf. butt-headed adj. 2.
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1856 Southern Cultivator Feb. 55/2 An ox..[became] badly diseased; being a butthead, I, of course, thought it wasn't the hollow horn.
1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 25 Jan. 139/1 The before-mentioned yoke of butt-head steers.
1908 Dial. Notes 3 295 [East Alabama] Butt-head, a muley cow, a cow or bull without horns.
1917 Daily Times Enterprise (Thomasville, Georgia) 14 Mar. (advt.) Strayed—fawn colored butt-head Jersey cow... Any information or return will be reasonably rewarded.
1987 C. M. Carver Amer. Regional Dial. v. 130 If the cow were hornless, she would be called a butt-head or be described as butt-headed, an Atlantic South ruralism with considerable currency.
3. Originally and chiefly North American. A stupid, stubborn, or contemptible person. Cf. butt-headed adj. 1.In later use popularized by the U.S. cartoon series Beavis and Butt-Head created by Ecuadorean-born American actor, writer, and filmmaker Mike Judge (b. 1962) and first shown on MTV in 1993.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]
asseOE
sotc1000
beastc1225
long-ear?a1300
stock1303
buzzard1377
mis-feelinga1382
dasarta1400
stonea1400
dasiberd14..
dottlec1400
doddypoll1401
dastardc1440
dotterel1440
dullardc1440
wantwit1449
jobardc1475
nollc1475
assheada1500
mulea1500
dull-pate15..
peak1509
dulbert?a1513
doddy-patec1525
noddypolla1529
hammer-head1532
dull-head?1534
capon1542
dolt1543
blockhead1549
cod's head1549
mome1550
grout-head1551
gander1553
skit-brains?1553
blocka1556
calfa1556
tomfool1565
dunce1567
druggard1569
cobble1570
dummel1570
Essex calf1573
jolthead1573
hardhead1576
beetle-head1577
dor-head1577
groutnoll1578
grosshead1580
thickskin1582
noddyship?1589
jobbernowl1592
beetle-brain1593
Dorbel1593
oatmeal-groat1594
loggerhead1595
block-pate1598
cittern-head1598
noddypoop1598
dorbellist1599
numps1599
dor1601
stump1602
ram-head1605
look-like-a-goose1606
ruff1606
clod1607
turf1607
asinego1609
clot-poll1609
doddiea1611
druggle1611
duncecomb1612
ox-head1613
clod-polla1616
dulman1615
jolterhead1620
bullhead1624
dunderwhelpa1625
dunderhead1630
macaroona1631
clod-patea1635
clota1637
dildo1638
clot-pate1640
stupid1640
clod-head1644
stub1644
simpletonian1652
bottle-head1654
Bœotiana1657
vappe1657
lackwit1668
cudden1673
plant-animal1673
dolt-head1679
cabbage head1682
put1688
a piece of wood1691
ouphe1694
dunderpate1697
numbskull1697
leather-head1699
nocky1699
Tom Cony1699
mopus1700
bluff-head1703
clod skull1707
dunny1709
dowf1722
stupe1722
gamphrel1729
gobbin?1746
duncehead1749
half-wit1755
thick-skull1755
jackass1756
woollen-head1756
numbhead1757
beef-head1775
granny1776
stupid-head1792
stunpolla1794
timber-head1794
wether heada1796
dummy1796
noghead1800
staumrel1802
muttonhead1803
num1807
dummkopf1809
tumphya1813
cod's head and shoulders1820
stoopid1823
thick-head1824
gype1825
stob1825
stookiea1828
woodenhead1831
ning-nong1832
log-head1834
fat-head1835
dunderheadism1836
turnip1837
mudhead1838
donkey1840
stupex1843
cabbage1844
morepork1845
lubber-head1847
slowpoke1847
stupiditarian1850
pudding-head1851
cod's head and shoulders1852
putty head1853
moke1855
mullet-head1855
pothead1855
mug1857
thick1857
boodle1862
meathead1863
missing link1863
half-baked1866
lunk1867
turnip-head1869
rummy1872
pumpkin-head1876
tattie1879
chump1883
dully1883
cretin1884
lunkhead1884
mopstick1886
dumbhead1887
peanut head1891
pie-face1891
doughbakea1895
butt-head1896
pinhead1896
cheesehead1900
nyamps1900
box head1902
bonehead1903
chickenhead1903
thickwit1904
cluck1906
boob1907
John1908
mooch1910
nitwit1910
dikkop1913
goop1914
goofus1916
rumdum1916
bone dome1917
moron1917
oik1917
jabroni1919
dumb-bell1920
knob1920
goon1921
dimwit1922
ivory dome1923
stone jug1923
dingleberry1924
gimp1924
bird brain1926
jughead1926
cloth-head1927
dumb1928
gazook1928
mouldwarp1928
ding-dong1929
stupido1929
mook1930
sparrow-brain1930
knobhead1931
dip1932
drip1932
epsilon1932
bohunkus1933
Nimrod1933
dumbass1934
zombie1936
pea-brain1938
knot-head1940
schlump1941
jarhead1942
Joe Soap1943
knuckle-head1944
nong1944
lame-brain1945
gobshite1946
rock-head1947
potato head1948
jerko1949
turkey1951
momo1953
poop-head1955
a right one1958
bam1959
nong-nong1959
dickhead1960
dumbo1960
Herbert1960
lamer1961
bampot1962
dipshit1963
bamstick1965
doofus1965
dick1966
pillock1967
zipperhead1967
dipstick1968
thickie1968
poephol1969
yo-yo1970
doof1971
cockhead1972
nully1973
thicko1976
wazzock1976
motorhead1979
mouth-breather1979
no-brainer1979
jerkwad1980
woodentop1981
dickwad1983
dough ball1983
dickweed1984
bawheid1985
numpty1985
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
knob-end1989
Muppet1989
dingus1997
dicksack1999
eight ball-
1896 Amer. Hist. Rev. 1 407 Gage was..that not uncommon type of soldier familiarly known in military parlance as a ‘butt-head’. As such, he, as a matter of course, fell into the dangerous error of underestimating his opponent.
1968 Jackson Daily News 9 Sept. 10/1 How many news commentators dared give voice to intelligent spokesmen of this state to refute those..insults from the bellowing batch of buttheads from Berkeley to Boston?
1988 Toronto Star (Nexis) 26 Jan. h4 ‘The question is, young man, what did you hope to accomplish by tossing that apple?’ ‘No, butthead, the question is why is your brain the size of a pea?’
2014 J. Ripslinger Weight of Guilt (2015) xxx. 147 I absolutely hate when guys act superior, like when John wanted me to stay in the truck while he got out and talked to the cops. What a butthead!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

butt-headn.2

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: butt n.5, head n.1
Etymology: < butt n.5 + head n.1
Nautical. Obsolete.
In a vessel: the end of a plank or timber which meets that of another; = butt-end n.2 Cf. butt n.5
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c1643 N. Boteler Dialogues (1929) (modernized text) 208 Great ships are bolted at the butt heads, that is, at the plank's end.
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 26 Starting of a But-head in a Ship's side.
1746 W. Hyland Ship-wreck iii. 13 The Hold is full, it rushes in like a Torrent, the Butt-head of a Plank is certainly sprung.
1779 C. Clerke Jrnl. 5 May in J. Cook Jrnl. (1967) III. 649 The Carpenters..on examining the Butt Heads at the Stern found them open and in a bad condition.
1852 Royalist & Republican III. ix. i. 108 On the third morning a butt-head started in the straining ship, and the water rushed in.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Butt-heads are the same with butt-ends.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018).
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