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English
Etymology
From dick + nose.
Noun
dicknose (plural dicknoses)
- (slang, vulgar, humorous) Term of abuse.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:jerk
1976, Lester Bangs, “The Greatest Album Ever Made”, in Greil Marcus, editor, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock ’n’ Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock ’n’ Roll, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1987, →ISBN, part four (Slaying the Father), page 196:At least Lou is upfront about it, which makes him more human than the rest of those MOR dicknoses.
1988 August 1, “Pepsi takes the fizz out of rock”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 46,987, page 18:But generally we’ve got this crap produced by dicknoses, I mean, people putting out what they know will sell and people saying ‘play that’ to 150 radio stations who can’t make up their own minds and are paying these idiots to tell them what to do.