asshat

[ as-hat ]

noun

, Slang: Vulgar.

1. a foolish, annoying, or contemptible person; asshole:

   It’s hard to raise a child without asshats regularly making commentary about what they think is wrong with your child or your parenting.

Other Words From

• ass·hat·ter·y noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of asshat¹

First recorded in 2000–05; ass ²( def ) + hat ( def 1 ); of uncertain origin; perhaps from the expression “to have one's head up one's ass” (and thus to wear one's ass as a hat); perhaps from the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), in which one character orders another to “get in line before I kick you so hard you’ll be wearin’ your ass for a hat”

Example Sentences

The point of a pressure-relief valve like pirate season is to keep your relationship strong and functioning until your significant other returns — not burn it to the ground by acting like an asshat.

From Los Angeles Times

The point of a pressure-relief valve like pirate season is to keep your relationship strong and functioning until your significant other returns — not burn it to the ground by acting like an asshat.

From Los Angeles Times

Raise them to feel like you will not be an asshat about it either way, and don’t get your underwear in a wad if they wait until they’re out of the house to tell you.

From Slate

And I was the seventeen-year-old asshat who brought him to tears.

From Literature

“How is it that no one has offed that dipshit asshat Farrakhan?”

From Washington Times