joder

• foder, hoder (obsolete)
• jolín, jo, jolines (euphemistic)
• jdr (censored spelling, Internet slang)

From older *hoder, from Old Spanish foder, from Latin futuere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”). The unexpected initial /x/ instead of being silent is unclear. Compare English footle, Catalan fotre, French foutre, Italian fottere, Portuguese foder, Galician foder, Romanian fute, and Sicilian fùttiri. Attested since 18th century.

• IPA^(key): /xoˈdeɾ/ [xoˈð̞eɾ]

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• IPA^(key): /xoˈdeɾ/ [hoˈeɾ] (Caribbean, Southern Spain)
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: jo‧der

joder (first-person singular present jodo, first-person singular preterite jodí, past participle jodido) (vulgar)

1. (transitive) to annoy, bug, bother, irritate

   Synonyms: fastidiar, fregar, molestar, jorobar, incomodar, incordiar, cargosear, agobiar, brear, importunar, (vulgar) chingar, embarazar

   Deja de joder a mi perro.

   Stop annoying my dog.

   Estábamos jodiéndote.

   We were bothering you.

   • 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter I, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 11:

     Me jode ir al Kronen los sábados por la tarde porque está siempre hasta el culo de gente.

     I hate going to the Kronen on Saturday afternoons because it's always filled to the brim with people.

2. (intransitive) to tell annoying jokes

   Synonym: contar chistes malos

   No jodas, que ese chiste no tiene gracia.

   Don't fuck around like that, that joke is not funny.

3. (intransitive) to be very annoying, difficult, tiring (be difficult)

   Synonyms: molestar, incomodar, (vulgar) chingar

   Cómo jode este trabajo.

   This job is so fucking hard.

   Qué me jode tener que esperarlos siempre.

   Having to wait for them every time is so annoying.

4. (reflexive, intransitive) to become ruined, fucked (said of a thing)

   Synonyms: arruinarse, estropearse

   Ya se nos jodió todo el viaje. ― Our whole trip is fucked now.

5. (reflexive, intransitive, Spain) to become ruined, fucked (said of a person)

   Synonyms: irse a la mierda, (Spain) irse a tomar por culo

   ¡Jódete, y que se joda tu madre también!

   Fuck you, and fuck your mother too!

6. (ambitransitive, Spain, Costa Rica, literally) to fuck, to have sex

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:joder

   Oí a mis amigos jodiendo en la otra habitación.

   I heard my friends fucking in the other room.

   • 1770, Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, Arte de las putas:

     Y Beatriz, la de las ingles bellas y ojos vivos, el pecho alto y carnoso, y en él dos tinajillas del Toboso; y la resaladísima Antonieta de hambrienta vulva y la Catalineta; la Matilde y famosa Sacristana con el lunar que el muslo la hermosea cuando la echan a vuelo cual campana; la Poderosa, del joder apriesa, con boca de carmín bañada en risa; y la Jacinta, del redondo culo, la Clara, que al nombrarla, en mi bragueta y en mi miembro efundió tanta lujuria cuanta de Clara el sucio nombre encierra; la Margarita de abultado chocho, que hace creer al majadero indiano que únicamente guarda para él solo.

     And Beatriz, with her beautiful groin and lively eyes, her high and fleshy breast, and in it two jars of Toboso wine; and the very salty Antonieta with her hungry vulva and Catalineta; Matilde and the famous Sacristan with the mole that beautifies her thigh when they throw her up in flight like a bell; the Powerful One, quick to fuck, with a carmine mouth bathed in laughter; and Jacinta, with her round ass, Clara, who, when I named her, poured into my crotch and my member as much lust as the dirty name Clara contains; Margarita with her bulging cunt, who makes the foolish Indian believe that she keeps it only for himself.

7. (transitive) to fuck over, to put someone in a difficult situation

   Synonyms: arruinar la situación, poner en jaque

   Ahora sí que nos han jodido después de subirnos la renta.

   They have really fucked us now that they've raised our rent.

   Me jodiste con esa pregunta.

   You put me in a difficult situation with that question.

   Como ella no llegó a tiempo, se jodió.

   Since she didn't arrive on time, she fucking put up with it.

8. (transitive, Dominican Republic, Mexico, El Salvador, Spain) to fuck up, smash, wreak, break, damage

   Synonyms: estropear, cargarse

   ¡Me jodiste la máquina!

   You fucked up my machine!

   ¡Me jodiste la computadora!

   You fucked up my computer!

9. to be something shitless

   Me jodo de miedo.

   I'm scared shitless

10. to joke, to kid

    Yo te estaba jodiendo.

    I was joking you.

11. (pronominal) to hate, to piss one off

    Me jode comer manzanas.

    I hate eating apples.

¡joder!

1. (vulgar, chiefly Spain) fuck!

   Synonyms: ¡mierda!, (euphemism) ¡miércoles de ceniza!, (euphemism, Spain) ¡jolín!, (euphemism, Spain) ¡jolines!

   ¡Joder, Hoy es un buen día!

   Fuck, today it's a good day!

   Joder, qué buena idea.

   Damn, what a good idea.

   • 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Sensini”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:

     Es que él era un escritor muy bueno, dije yo. Joder, dijo Miranda y se levantó y salió al patio, como si yo hubiera dicho algo que la hubiera ofendido.

     "He was a good writer", I said. "Fuck!", said Miranda, who then stood up and went out to the garden, as if I had said something offensive to her.

2. (vulgar, chiefly Spain) jeez!, damn! (expression of surprise)

   Synonyms: ¡qué barbaridad!, (Spain) ¡hostia!

joder

1. (vulgar, nonstandard) the fuck (as an intensifier)

   ¿Pero qué joder es esto?

   What the fuck is this?

• “joder”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “joder”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010