Friday, February 16, 2007

India's contribution to English

Encountered this word on Southpark and it not even beeped like all other abuses...

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.

u guys know of any great indian words now part of english? its high time the exchange went the other way...i can think of chutney, curry....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

yeah sure.there's moolah,junta,coolie,ganja etc. etc.