# Choad, choadler **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 19, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204 "2004-06-19T16:30:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/1 "2004-06-19T16:30:12Z")
What is “choad”? I thought it was semen. A “choadler” would be a “cocksucker”. But ISTR that there are other definitions. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/2 "2004-06-19T16:32:48Z")
There was an episode of _South Park_ where Kyle called Cartman “a total choad”. A quick Googling shows it to mean “penis”. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/3 "2004-06-19T16:34:45Z")
> [@](#): > > choad > > /chohd/ n. Synonym for `penis' used in alt.tasteless and popularized by the denizens thereof. They say: "We think maybe it's from Middle English but we're all too damned lazy to check the OED." [I'm not. It isn't. --ESR] This term is alleged to have been inherited through 1960s underground comics, and to have been recently sighted in the Beavis and Butthead cartoons. Speakers of the Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati languages have confirmed that `choad’ is in fact an Indian vernacular word equivalent to `f\*\*k’; > it is therefore likely to have entered English slang via the British > Raj. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=choad](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=choad) ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/4 "2004-06-19T23:24:24Z")
There was a thread on this back in 2001. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=101902](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=101902) And I _did_ go back and check with the list over at the American Dialect Society. It _does_ first appear in print in 1968 in _Zap Comix No. 3)_. But it almost certainly didn’t get into English from Hindu. Just how the Indian word for _fuck_ was adopted by Robert Crumb or other early underground comic people is the sticking point. Where’s the vector? ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/5 "2004-06-20T00:07:08Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > But it almost certainly didn’t get into English from Hindu. Just how the Indian word for _fuck_ was adopted by Robert Crumb or other early underground comic people is the sticking point. Where’s the vector? Who’s to say that the word wasn’t adopted informally by other people before then, with the comic people finally putting into print? It certainly does make sense that it came into English from Hindu, and probably via the British. The Hindi curse _maderchod_ means “motherf\*cker,” and that’s just one example of the use of _chod_ in that fashion. Other examples using _chod_ in some form can be found [here](http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/hindi.htm). ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/6 "2004-06-20T00:16:39Z")
“It certainly does make sense that it came into English from **Hindi** …” Preview is your friend. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/7 "2004-06-20T01:41:40Z")
Not that my experience is in any way indicative of actual meaning or word origin, but for about 15 years I’ve heard the term “choad” to refer to a penis that is wider than it is long. I’d heard it in high school (Kansas), and also independently from a different source several times in college (northern Indiana). ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/8 "2004-06-20T02:14:05Z")
I’ve also known the term to mean a really tiny penis- especially one that is wider than it is long (if that is even possible). Basically you’d tell someone they had a choad as an insult, akin to “Your penis is sooo small…” ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/9 "2004-06-20T02:23:29Z")
> [@sunfish](#): > > It certainly does make sense that it came into English from Hindu, and probably via the British. The Hindi curse _maderchod_ means “motherf\*cker,” and that’s just one example of the use of _chod_ in that fashion. Other examples using _chod_ in some form can be found [here](http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/hindi.htm). The word in US youth slang meant “penis” in its original cites. How does the Hindi word for “fuck” get used as “penis?” Can you give a use of the word in Hindi that uses it to mean “penis?” And there’s always the problem that the word as it first appears in English is only _similar_ to a Hindi word. But that doesn’t make them the same word from the same source. Certainly it would make sense that the British would have picked up the word first, but it doesn’t seem to have ever been a slang term in Britain. It seems to have appeared in the US first. And mainly stayed there until recently. There is a word in Navajo– **Chodis** – which means _penis_. (I’m relying on the linguists over at the American Dialect Society for that). Couldn’t we as easily say that the youth in the sixties adopted it from the Navajos? And, finally, the South Park references start in 1993, but rather than meaning “penis” they meant “dingleberry.” It had that meaning in college slang by at least a cited 1991 appearance. ---
**Author:** ![caligynephobia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@caligynephobia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligynephobia)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/10 "2004-06-20T02:26:55Z")
I’ve heard it used primarily as something to call a guy you don’t like; It works really well if the guy’s name is Chad, 'cause then you can use it at work. In my experience, usually defined by its users as the same as perineaum or “taint.” Alternate meanings I’ve heard include penis, as well as (once on the radio) the whole wang-nads combo. This was more commonly called the “woz” among my those of my high school buddies prone to vandalism. ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/11 "2004-06-20T03:32:53Z")
In high school, it was meant to mean the skin between a guy’s testicles and his asshole. A guy I knew insisted the proper spelling of the word was “Tjode.” ---
**Author:** ![qshapadooy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c67d28/32.png) [@qshapadooy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qshapadooy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/12 "2004-06-20T04:31:46Z")
> [@PaulFitzroy](#): > > In high school, it was meant to mean the skin between a guy’s testicles and his asshole. A guy I knew insisted the proper spelling of the word was “Tjode.” Aww, cmon. That’s the taint. Because it 'taint the balls and it 'taint the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choad-choadler/251204/13 "2004-06-20T18:38:52Z")
> [@qshapadooy](#): > > Aww, cmon. That’s the taint. > > Because it 'taint the balls and it 'taint the ass. I believe you are referring to the [baunch](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=baunch) or the [grundle](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grundle&f=1) . Also, the spelling “tjode” seems Indian in origin (which language, I don’t know). “Tjinder” is a man’s name in India. However, the guy Tjinder Singh in the group Cornershop pronounces it with a hard T: “T-Jinder”.