"cray-dar" meaning in English

See cray-dar in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: En-au-cray-dar.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: cray (“crazy”) + -dar Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|cray|dar|t1=crazy}} cray (“crazy”) + -dar Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} cray-dar (uncountable)
  1. (slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is crazy. Tags: slang, uncountable
    Sense id: en-cray-dar-en-noun-NsAO40ck Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -dar

Download JSON data for cray-dar meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cray",
        "3": "dar",
        "t1": "crazy"
      },
      "expansion": "cray (“crazy”) + -dar",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "cray (“crazy”) + -dar",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "cray-dar (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -dar",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Catherine Alvarez-McCurdy, \"Halloween Costumes: Least To Most Fuckable\", The Chicago Shady Dealer (humor magazine of The University of Chicago), Volume 9, Issue 2, 5 November 2012, page 3",
          "text": "Someone who likes whips and bondage just as much as you will probably be at the party too; I’m sure your cray-dar will start beeping soon."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 October 9, “Zodiac”, in The Valley Beat, number 160, page 26",
          "text": "Turn on your “cray-dar,” Aquarius. While you love an eccentric individual, this week you could magnetize people who are truly off their rockers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Sharon Saracino, Smitten with Death, The Wild Rose Press",
          "text": "[…] You put him right in the crosshairs of my mother's cray-dar, and I suspect he'll be keeping a very low profile for a while.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The ability to detect whether or not a person is crazy."
      ],
      "id": "en-cray-dar-en-noun-NsAO40ck",
      "links": [
        [
          "crazy",
          "crazy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is crazy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-cray-dar.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/97/En-au-cray-dar.ogg/En-au-cray-dar.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/En-au-cray-dar.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cray-dar"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cray",
        "3": "dar",
        "t1": "crazy"
      },
      "expansion": "cray (“crazy”) + -dar",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "cray (“crazy”) + -dar",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "cray-dar (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms suffixed with -dar",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Catherine Alvarez-McCurdy, \"Halloween Costumes: Least To Most Fuckable\", The Chicago Shady Dealer (humor magazine of The University of Chicago), Volume 9, Issue 2, 5 November 2012, page 3",
          "text": "Someone who likes whips and bondage just as much as you will probably be at the party too; I’m sure your cray-dar will start beeping soon."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 October 9, “Zodiac”, in The Valley Beat, number 160, page 26",
          "text": "Turn on your “cray-dar,” Aquarius. While you love an eccentric individual, this week you could magnetize people who are truly off their rockers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Sharon Saracino, Smitten with Death, The Wild Rose Press",
          "text": "[…] You put him right in the crosshairs of my mother's cray-dar, and I suspect he'll be keeping a very low profile for a while.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The ability to detect whether or not a person is crazy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "crazy",
          "crazy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is crazy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-cray-dar.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/97/En-au-cray-dar.ogg/En-au-cray-dar.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/En-au-cray-dar.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cray-dar"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.