hodad

See also: ho-dad

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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 South American Spanish jodido (“fucked, difficult, annoying”) similarly lacks evidence; also the vowel change from -did to -dad is unexplained.

Noun

hodad (plural hodads)

  1. (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

References
  1. J. E. Lighter, The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Vol. II: H–O. (1997)
  2. Jonathon Green (2024) “hodad”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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