shithead vs pillock

shithead and pillock both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shithead	Yes	No	No	No
pillock	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pillock is a hypernym of shithead; that is, pillock is a word with a broader meaning than shithead:

shithead: a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
pillock: a person who is not very bright

Other hypernyms of shithead include dolt, dullard, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person.

shithead (noun)	pillock (noun)
a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence	a person who is not very bright