Butthead vs Dickhead - What's the difference?

In vulgar colloquial pejorative terms the difference between butthead and dickhead

is that butthead is an annoying person or someone who is difficult to get along with while dickhead is a stupid or useless person.

(en noun)

(vulgar, colloquial, pejorative) An annoying person or someone who is difficult to get along with.

* 2009 , Glenn R. Schiraldi, The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook?? , page 131:

If you think, "He is such a butthead'," you might ask yourself what a ' butthead ...

* dick-head

(en noun)

(vulgar, colloquial) The glans penis.

* 1970 , Clarence Major, All-night Visitors , page 71:

...down, down, sinking down faster than she's so far moved, the dick head exploding up into all that wet, warm slime...

(vulgar, colloquial, pejorative) A jerk; a mean or rude person.

* 1965 , Robin Moore, The Green Berets , page 242:

I don't want them Special Forces guys left out there when some dickhead is afraid to go get them.

* 1996 , Timothy Jay, What to Do When Your Students Talk Dirty page 207:

...they have been exchanging insults in writing: "dickhead ," "dillweed," "fuzzbutt," "dorkwad," "asswipe," and so forth.

(vulgar, colloquial, pejorative) A stupid or useless person.

* 1979 , E.M. Corder, The Deer Hunter , page 69:

"Watch it, dickhead !" "Hey, Stan, that's my shirt you just dropped in the snow!"

* bell-end * cockhead * knobhead * See also ; .