# Zits on Chodes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 11, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232 "2004-11-11T17:48:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/1 "2004-11-11T17:48:08Z")
So here I am sitting at my desk, surfing the Dope, minding my own business. From behind me I hear my co-worker yell “Ouch”. I turn to see him tenderly sitting himself in his chair. He notices my somewhat concerned look and simply says “zits on the chode”. Now then, for anyone who is out of the loop like I was, a chode seems to be what we called a taint back in my day. Why on earth someone would want to inform the rest of the office that they have painful zits on their chode (aka: taint) is beyond me. It did strike up a rather disturbing mental image. So please, if anyone else out there is thinking of informing their co-workers of things that could be wrong with their underparts, let me suggest that you don’t. It was really gross and may quite possibly have the end effect of putting me off my lunch. \*before anyone else gets the chance, just let me say: Zits On Chodes = Band name. Thank you for your time. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/2 "2004-11-11T18:00:18Z")
Huh. I thought my old hockey teammates made up that term. The more you know! ---
**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:** [November 11, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/3 "2004-11-11T18:04:18Z")
I was led to believe in college that a chode is a “penis that is wider than it is long”. Tell him he’s got a zit on his taint, and to leave his tuna can penis out of the discussion! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/4 "2004-11-11T18:07:19Z")
It has both meanings. BTW, the correct spelling is “choad”. ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/5 "2004-11-11T18:10:10Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > It has both meanings. > > BTW, the correct spelling is “choad”. You know, I actually changed the spelling about 4 times. I was flip-flopping between chode and choad. I should have gone with my first instinct. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/6 "2004-11-11T18:11:28Z")
Once I had the worst boil on my choad…think golfball size. I know, TMI, bad mental picture and all that. Sorry, but I sympathize with your poor co-worker. A choad is a wide cock? Nah, a choad is a taint. Sam ---
**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:** [November 11, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/7 "2004-11-11T18:17:29Z")
> [@GaWd](#): > > A choad is a wide cock? Nah, a choad is a taint. Oh, I disagree. From [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com): > [@](#): > > 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 `fuck’; > it is therefore likely to have entered English slang via the British > Raj. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/8 "2004-11-11T18:20:13Z")
When referring to the perineum, I believe the informal term of choice is **baunch**. ---
**Author:** ![NotMrKnowItAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@NotMrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotMrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/9 "2004-11-11T18:20:25Z")
Are you talking about the perineum? ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/10 "2004-11-11T18:20:41Z")
Go figure. Well, it’s a regional vernacular for the taint here. Sam ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/11 "2004-11-11T18:21:49Z")
> [@NotMrKnowItAll](#): > > Are you talking about the perineum? Yes. Y’know, the taint…as in “tain’t your balls, tain’t your asshole, neither”. Sam ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/12 "2004-11-11T18:23:35Z")
Is “choad” somehow related to “choadah” (sp?)? I heard some kid yell “choke on my choadah” to another kid, and I had “wtf?” in my head for the rest of the day. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/13 "2004-11-11T18:23:58Z")
At least he didn’t announce that he had a sunburnt taint. Cause not only would that’ve grossed you out, but it would’ve made you wonder how… ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/14 "2004-11-11T18:27:59Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I was led to believe in college that a chode is a “penis that is wider than it is long”. Tell him he’s got a zit on his taint, and to leave his tuna can penis out of the discussion! Dude, don´t you be bad talking my penis… He´s 2 inches long and twelve around. I call him The Wedge. ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/15 "2004-11-11T18:28:41Z")
> [@NotMrKnowItAll](#): > > Are you talking about the perineum? You know, it never even occurred to me that there might actually be a real word for that bit of skin. I figured that it would just be called…skin. I have never heard it called anything other than a taint, until today that is. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/16 "2004-11-11T18:36:59Z")
Zits on Chodes sounds like a board game for pre-schoolers gone horribly wrong. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/17 "2004-11-11T18:38:45Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > You know, it never even occurred to me that there might actually be a real word for that bit of skin. I figured that it would just be called…skin. I have never heard it called anything other than a taint, until today that is. I’d heard “grundle” as well. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/18 "2004-11-11T18:41:07Z")
Once again, my ignorance regarding something has been dispelled. This freakin’ board pays for itself, it does! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/19 "2004-11-11T18:44:34Z")
Has the term “choad” been around a while or is it a semi-new creation? And what about “Duck Butter”? Is there another term for that, as well? ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232/20 "2004-11-11T18:45:54Z")
10 years ago in high school it was used as a descriptor. Is that “new”? Sam [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zits-on-chodes/274232.md?page=2)