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Sentence The word "butthead" is considered slang and should usually not be used in written English.
If you do choose to use it, it is generally meant to be used as an insult to describe a person who is not thinking clearly or is otherwise being annoying. For example: "Stop being such a butthead and listen to what I'm telling you!".
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butthead
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An annoying person or someone who is difficult to get along with.
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Now Mike Judge (the creator of "Beavis and Butthead") is back to laughing at them again, skewering Silicon Valley and startup culture in general.
By now, most of us can list Jeremy Clarkson's more offensive recent utterances: the "n word", most unforgivably; the "slope" on a Burmese bridge; and, with Top Gear co-presenter Richard Hammond, playing Beavis to Clarkson's Butthead, those lazy, flatulent Mexicans.
An elderly Biff staggers around, Trump-like, calling people "loser" and "butthead".
Cretin!"; "Miron, you devil's butthead, pass the ball or I'll kill you"; "Bordeianu, your brain is empty, what the hell are you doing?"; and "Patache, asshole, I'll beat you to death, you idiot, you'll see".
"Does Morne Morkel call his teammates Butthead?" says Daniel Harris.
Romania: Botosani owner Valeriu Iftime – sacking Leo Grozavu a week after the coach pledged to "beat and kill" his "cretin … devil's butthead" players during a match.
That butthead Louis Rukeyser was at it again — chortling about how investors ignored my cryptic "irrational exuberance" remark and sent the Nasdaq rocketing to record highs.
At last count, no fewer than 753 irate Holmes fans had risen to set me straight: "Safire, butthead," saluted one, "Silver Blaze was the name of the horsenapped racehorse, not the dog at the farm which [sic] didn't bark".
Television's most inspired sketch artists (Sid Caesar, Ernie Kovacs, Butthead) were often dazzling in the fierce run of five minutes, but exhausting and impersonal for much longer.
More recent offerings included cartoons ("Beavis and Butthead"), cheesy old TV shows ("The Coneheads") and movies where the title more or less says it all ("The Beautician and the Beast, National Lampoonon Vacation").
Wavves Demon to Lean On Nathan Williams isn't the most likeable character in the overtly obnoxious garage rock scene but, as his music deepens emotionally, he sounds less Beavis and Butthead and more Neutral Milk Hotel.
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