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hodad

hodad noun: someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers.

Noun

hodad (plural hodads)

  1. (derogatory, slang) Someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers.

Forms of hodad

pluralhodads
alternative formho-dad
alternative formhodaddy

Origin of hodad

Originally Californian surfer slang from the 1960s. Perhaps from the greeting Ho! Dad, 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.

Questions about hodad

What does hodad mean?
Hodad means someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers.
What part of speech is hodad?
Hodad is a noun.
What is the plural of hodad?
The plural of hodad is hodads.

Words near hodad in the dictionary

  1. hod boys
  2. hod carrier
  3. hod carriers
  4. hod-
  5. Hoda
  6. hodad
  7. hodaddies
  8. hodaddy
  9. hodads
  10. hodag
  11. hodags

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