dickhead (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Feb 1, 2008 1:17 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
>
> OED has 1969 for "dick-head"
>
> _The Green Berets_ by Robin Moore  New York, Crown Publishers [1965]
>
> " "Who is that little dickhead?" "That is my counterpart, the camp
> commander, Captain Nim." " p. 238 [Google Books, snippet view]

A different quote from this book is in HDAS ("I just don't like that
little crook to think we're absolute dickheads").


--Ben Zimmer

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