shitheadery

English

Etymology

From shithead +‎ -ery.

Noun

shitheadery (uncountable)

1. (derogatory, slang, vulgar) Behavior characteristic of a shithead.
   • 2017, Tom Rademacher, It Won’t Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 115:

     In a conversation with a teacher at another school, I brought up suspensions, and she told even more striking tales of tomfoolery and shitheadery at her school.

   • 2020, Sarah Zettel, chapter 3, in A Mother’s Lie, New York, N.Y.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:

     Chelsea took German because she’d heard that the universities there offered free tuition, even to foreign students. Four more years, she’d said, and I can tell them all to take their fucked-up lives and their trust fund and their codependent shitheadery and shove it up whatever orifice they got left, cuz I am outta there!

   • 2020 September 16, Kevin L. Hoover, “Arcata Police Log: The Era of Annoyance cedes to the Age of Aggressive Obnoxiousness”, in Mad River Union, volume 7, number 52, Arcata, Calif., →ISSN, page 5, column 5:

     Further demonstrating the chronic reverse-wisdom of orange-hued individuals, the SUV driver entered the drive-thru lane and attempted to place an order. Refused burgery goodness on grounds of prior shitheadery, he threatened an employee’s life.

   • 2021, Sara Barnard, Destination Anywhere, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 16:

     In school, cool is currency, and cool, apparently, is letting shitheads get away with being shitheads. It’s praising them for their shitheadery. / Anyone who believes that the world operates on a basis of right and wrong has never been to secondary school.

   • 2022, Laura Kipnis, Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, pages 87–88:

     I suppose it’s easier to focus on the considerable ways that men are shitheads and abusers than the considerable ways that we ourselves prop them up. By “we,” I include myself. If it’s going to be #TimesUp on the shitheadery, if the political demand of the moment is for men to give up the toxic masculinity and toxic sexual behaviors, are there vestigial aspects of femininity that should perhaps be on the chopping block too?