hodad
Plural: hodads
Noun
- A non-surfer who frequents surfing beaches.
- Someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers.
Examples
- Playing ’HODAD’ felt like an obscure beach bum reference, but it scored well.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 10
hodad: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhodad: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hodad: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
hodad: valid Words With Friends Word