"dickhead" in the news

[Laurence Horn]

On Jun 15, 2014, at 3:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> "KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Senior Russian parliamentarians urged Ukraine on
> Sunday to sack its foreign minister for calling President Vladimir Putin a
> 'dickhead' during a violent protest outside Russia's embassy in Kiev."
>
In either Ukrainian or Russian, I assume.  I'm curious about the literal meaning of the literal term he used--was it indeed 'dick' + 'head' or something else, and if the latter, how can we tell it was 'dickhead' and not 'asshole'?  (Or a body part conventionalized as an insult, in the manner of "prick", "putz", "shmuck"?)

LH

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