chode
noun
a contemptible jerk, loser, etc.
What does chode mean?
Chode is a slang term of abuse, usually (but not always) encountered online, used to refer to a contemptible jerk.
Examples of chode
“Get Ty Masterson to quit being a chode and allow legalized marijuana to be grown and sold in Kansas,” wrote an individual who identified themself as Blake F, of Wichita.
—Sherman Smith, The Kansas Reflector, 6 May 2025
Even on the terms of his most generous depictions, Batman is a dingus. He is a trust-fund billionaire who puts on a balaclava with ears so that he can do technology-enhanced karate at pickpockets and muggers; who sinks his fortune into paramilitary hardware in support of his one-man campaign to punch a major city into peace. … He is a choad.
—“There’s so much that’s winning and funny up this film's sleeve,” writes the Telegraph’s Tim Robey. “I loved the various weird coinages of man-speak, such as ‘frosty-haired chode’ to describe someone you don’t like.”
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Where does chode come from?
The use of chode/choad as an insult stems from earlier, usually vulgar uses, namely “a short, wide penis,” or “a perineum" (aka a taint), though these uses have also appeared in polite publications. Chode’s earlier origins are as yet uncertain, but it has appeared in English since at least the mid-20th century. While chode shares much of its meaning with chud, the two words are not etymologically connected.
One of the last things a motorist might expect to see alongside Babcock Road, a major Northwest Side traffic artery, is an infrastructure contractor’s electronic sign bearing a vulgar message about someone’s genitalia. But there it was: “Mark has a chode,” in orange lights on the marquee-style display normally used to warn about road hazards.
—Men ... find that being seated can often be quite uncomfortable; one of my lunch companions, a recent convert to the pleasures of the saddle, explained that a really good riding instructor would explain to a male novice that he should, against all base instincts, relax—or surrender—the perineum, known in horsey circles as the chode.
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How is chode used?
Like many insults of an anatomical nature, contemptuously, if humorously.
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