surfien.
/ˈsəːfi/, U.S. /ˈsərfi/, Australian English /ˈsɜːfi/ colloquial (originally and chiefly Australian).
A surfing enthusiast; a person (esp. a young man) who habitually spends time surfing, or frequenting beaches suitable for surfing. Cf. surf-bum n. at surf n. Compounds 2a.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > surfer > specific types
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1962 Austral. Women's Weekly 24 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/4 Surfie, a fond term for a good and keen surfer.
1963 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 10 Nov. 23 He talks surfie talk..‘cowabunga, wipe-out, I'm getting stoked..yay gremmies’.
1967 Coast to Coast 1965–6 254 In one coffee-bar doorway stood the hoodlums..glowering at the pink and orange and green of the surfies going by.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Jan. 110/5 He agrees to deliver a deal for this scruffy surfie and the plot is primed.
2000 P. Moore Full Montezuma (2001) xxi. 361 It was a reggae night and the bar was packed with tanned surfies in long shorts and girls in short skirts and tight tops.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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