Should it be 'dickhead' or 'dick head'? My spellcheck doesn't like dickhead, but I don't know if that's just because it's a naughty word. It looks better to me as one word but, for obvious reasons, it's not something one sees written down all that often so I'm not sure.

A google search says dickhead or dick-head.

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...Which makes sense as it's pronounced dickhead (DickEd), rather than dick head.

It must be dickhead. dick head sounds like a name.

dick head sounds like a name.

I can think of a few people who ought to have it as a name, mind you...

Yes, I agree - one word, or hyphenated.

Emma

I'd say one word. LOvely thread title, Catcrag!

One word. Deffo.

One word. I knew a Richard Head, poor sod.

I think it's dickhead . It's always pronounced as one word.

If shouted over a distance like a football taunt it can become dickheed.

For some reason I think sounds best in harsh Liverpudlian . It becomes deckhead.

Americans say dickwad but I've not been able to ask if this is derived from dickhead

Is feckin a bad word? I have a relative who uses it to emphasise
significant points in conversation and he doesn't swear in any other way.

For example: "Well , it was black ice and there were so many fallen over that day, when I got to hospital there wasn't a feckin crutch left in the place."

Thanks everyone, just as I thought.
I was at school with a Wayne King, which I thought was pretty bad but has nothing on Richard Head.

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Firethorne, crossed with you - I think fecking is a bit like the Irish version of 'blooming', ie not very rude and the kind of thing your mum might say.

God, I love swearing. LOVE IT.

I used to work in the construction industry and there was a Richard Stain. Mr R Stain - just say it...

I phoned him several times, but the first time he answered I had to put the phone down and have a fit under the desk: 'Dick Stain speaking...'

I am NOT joking!

catcrag- Thank you for explaining. I must remember not to use a near sounding English equivalent if I go over to see them, thinking that's what they mean. People are very confusing in this respect for me so you have saved me a lot of trouble if I do go to Ireland.

Dick Stain !

Yes, I can confirm that, in Ireland, feck is any and all of the verb to throw, a term of endearment, a polite form of bloomin (as in bloomin' eck), a term of abuse and punctuation. As in "Feck that fecking fecker off that fecking yoke. Yer man's lost the fecking run of himself."

The adjective I loved in The Commitments was "cuntish" to describe something, usually food from the canteen, that wasn't very nice. Genius.