Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) used in a nominal or adjectival form to express a brainless or automatic quality, e.g. zomboid.

1900		‘Terms Peculiar to West Point’ Howitzer 118: CRAWLOID.–One who crawls a great deal.
1905		‘West Point Sl.’ in Howitzer (US Milit. Academy) 292–5: Bonoid – One who scrambles for the tenths; a worker [...] Hopoid – A disciple of Terpsichore [...] Quilloid – One who quills [...] Spoonoid – One who spoons.
a.1948		(con. early 1930s) C. McKay Harlem Glory (1990) 27: Buster had corralled a half a dozen dubious negroids in Montparnasse.
1960		G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 35: It sounds like something out of 1984! And you know it and that’s why you’re so schizoid!
1980		(con. 1975) W. Sherman Times Square 298: You’ve got these different personalities. Not like a shizoid. But it’s like you’re one way with some people.
1986		C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 97: He as ready for the sleazoid delights of 42nd Street.
1986		C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 165: That was a great line you fed Bloodworth about Slavic crazoids in fright wigs.
1986		J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 104: Bobby would talk him into some sleazoid quick-bucks scam.
1989		M. Amis London Fields 302: I wait until Kath is asleep or out pacing the walkways with the alcoholic housewives, the tranqued mums, the bingoid single parents.
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 17: A precision patrol of crackoids swivelhipping between stalled bumpers.
1991		B. Hamper Rivethead (1992) 168: I would declare myself a loyal domestic, a devoted Flintoid.
1991		Eble Campus Sl. Fall 5: skeezoid – promiscuous female. [Ibid.] 6: wastoid – person who is quite drunk.
1995		J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 95: The year-round, long-sleeved fashion favored by hardcore needle-oids.
1998		D. Hecht Skull Session 172: Little ratshit creepoid.
1998		I. Welsh Filth 256: Thanks, the squeakoid says on his behalf.
2000		M. Manning Get Your Cock Out 78: ‘Would you yourself be wanting to bugger the young lady?’ retorted Mama Pervoid.
2001		J. Stahl Plainclothes Naked (2002) 64: Mac’s crime went down in a bar Zank knew catered to homoloids.
2004		R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] [A] trendoid clothing shop.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 172: There was a speckoid, gawky and enthusiastic, with Fi and the kids.
2014		B. Nadler ‘Walk Up’ in ThugLit Mar. [ebook] No drugs or alcohol. Fuck becoming like all the other downtown wasteoids.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 177: Miss Franklin High [...] crazoid Chrissy Molette [ibid.] 215: Pearl Harbor perpetrated by the putzoid Fourth Estate!!!!
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 161: He’s a tabloidoid (!) with a thesaurus [ibid] 333: His creepoid father’s connection to Roman Marcato was total soil-pipe.