"dickhead" in the news

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> > how can we tell it was 'dickhead' and not 'asshole'?
>
> How can we tell that it was "dickhead" and not "dick"? Does "dickhead"
> provide the words or the music or both?
>
> _Khui_ is the word for "dick" in the relevant sense. But my very limited
> experience is that Russiam GI-equivalents say things like "ia ne khuia ne
> slyshu" = "I don't hear dick," "khui tebe v zhopu!" = "a dick for thee into
> thine arse!" (= "fuck you!"?) and others equally irrelevant.

Looks like it's хуйло (khuilo/huylo). So just "dick," I guess.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/top-ukrainian-diplomat-calls-putin-a-dickhead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin_huylo!
https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE

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