Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hodad

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ho-dad
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Derogatory; Slang

Etymology

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.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: jodido

Usage

Inflected Forms

hodads (plural) ho-dad (alternative) hodaddy (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

hoedad

Questions

What does hodad mean?: Someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers.
Where does hodad come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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