asswad

English

Etymology

From ass +‎ -wad.

Noun

asswad (plural asswads)

1. (Canada, US, slang, mildly vulgar, derogatory or offensive) An obnoxious person; a jerk.
   • 2004, Catherine Trieschmann, crooked [play], Samuel French, 2009 American ed., →ISBN, p. 30:

     MARIBEL: You can't cuss
     LANEY: I didn't cuss, I just said asswad.

   • 2006, Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, Television Without Pity: 752 Things We Love to Hate (and Hate to Love) about TV, Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 73:

     In later seasons of DC [Dawson's Creek], it seemed like the writers finally caught on to what we'd known all along: Dawson is an asswad […]

   • 2024 August 12, Grace Parra Janney, “The Educational Sprinkler Device” (17:07 from the start), in Solar Opposites‎^[1], season 5, episode 4, spoken by Jesse (Mary Mack):

     “Everyone's a stupid little shitbag when they're kids.” “Really?” “Uh-huh, and if you're not a sitbag, well, then you're a cumstain.” “Or an asswad.” “That's right.”