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English
Etymology
From fish + head.
Pronunciation
Noun
fishhead (plural fishheads)
- The head of a fish.
- Coordinate term: fishtail
- (slang) A member of a navy; a sailor; a fisherman.
2009, Dawn French, Dear Fatty, page 180:Being a Plymouth girl, I had heard plenty of racy stories about navy chaps, or fishheads as we called you. The navy regularly swarmed the streets of Plymouth on a Saturday night.
- (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person from Southeast Asia.[1]
2004 June 29, Cerberus, “Papers Please!”, in ok.general (Usenet):> >I see you are trying to post in chink. Ha!! Ha!!
>
> No, that was an English translation of your post.
Your a fishhead Ha!! Ha!!
2009 July 20, Patriot Games, “Patriot Games Would Like to Apologize to Gooks”, in alt.politics (Usenet):For locking you fishheads up after Pearl Harbor.
2018 September 11, The Starmaker, “Re: Julie / The Talk”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):i thought jule chen and connie chung were both the same people...wat do
i know.
i cannot tell those fuckin people apart.
fishheads.
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References
- ^ Eric Partridge (2009) The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English, page 367
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