hodad
See also: ho-dad
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally Californian surfer slang from the 1960s.[1] Perhaps from the greeting Ho! Dad,[2] though no evidence for this derivation is known. The suggestion that it derives from Western Hemisphere Spanish jodido (“fucked, difficult, annoying”) similarly lacks evidence; also the vowel change from -did to -dad is unexplained.
Noun
[edit]hodad (plural hodads)
- (surfing, slang, derogatory) Someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ J. E. Lighter, The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Vol. II: H–O. (1997)
- ^ “hodad”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present