<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>choad</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="Chinese-Army-technique.html" title="Chinese Army technique"/><link rel="next" href="choke.html" title="choke"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">choad</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Chinese-Army-technique.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="choke.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="choad"/><dt xmlns="" id="choad"><b>choad</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/chohd/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Synonym for ‘penis’ used in <tt class="systemitem">alt.tasteless</tt> and popularized by the denizens thereof. They say: “<span class="quote">We think maybe it's from Middle English but we're all too damned lazy to check the OED.</span>” [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.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Chinese-Army-technique.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="choke.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chinese Army technique </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> choke</td></tr></table></div></body></html>