gaydar
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of gay + radar, equivalent to gay + -dar.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪdɑː/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪˌdɑɹ/
- Hyphenation: gay‧dar
Noun
[edit]gaydar (countable and uncountable, plural gaydars)
- (slang) The supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay by observing that person's appearance, mannerisms, etc. [from early 1980s]
- 1982 July 15, Gloria Goodqueen, “What’s in a card”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume XII, number 28, San Francisco, Calif.: Benro Enterprises, →OCLC, page 7, column 1:
- This is not your Hallmark in Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there … no radar like gaydar, I always say.
- 1996, Judy Carter, “Step 3: Find Another Homo”, in The Homo Handbook: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homo, New York, N.Y.: Fireside Books, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 51:
- When you first come out, you might have an overactive gaydar. When I realized I was gay, I wanted everyone to be gay too, which led to a lot of wishful thinking. "Helen Hunt is gay!" Dream on, girl!
- 2013 May 12, Jocelyn Samara DiDomenick, “Comic 368 – January Girls”, in Rain[1] (webcomic), archived from the original on 2022-12-08:
- I dunno. He's carried this one on since Halloween. I'm starting to think the lie was actually the "straight guy role". I may have a crappy gaydar, but having faked heterosexuality before, I feel like I should be able to recognize it.
- 2017 September 9, Sam Levin, “LGBT groups denounce ‘dangerous’ AI that uses your face to guess sexuality”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-29:
- The research, which went viral this week, used a sample of online dating photos, limited only to white users, to demonstrate that an algorithm could correctly distinguish between gay and straight men 81% of the time and 74% for women, suggesting machines can potentially have much better "gaydar" than humans.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay
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References
[edit]- ^ “gaydar, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2022; “gaydar, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]- gaydar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Jonathon Green (2024) “gaydar n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]gaydar
- gaydar
- 2017, Endre Lund Eriksen, Den sommer far blev homo, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
- Men Indiane påstod, at hendes far havde noget, de kaldte en gaydar. En slags indbygget radar, som fortalte ham, hvem der var bøsser, og hvem der ikke var.
- But Indiane claimed that her father had something they called a gaydar. A sort of built-in radar who told him who were gay, and who were not.
- 2012, Søren Vejby, Upcoming, Art People, →ISBN, page 2:
- Jeg er nemlig udstyret med en gaydar, og den bippede i hvert fald ikke, da vi kyssede til festen.
- For I am equipped with a gaydar, and it certainly did not beep when we kissed at the party.
- 2015, Anne Holt, anonymous translator, Sudden death, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
- Desuden kan også gaydarer tage fejl.
- Besides, gaydars, too, can be wrong.
Declension
[edit]Declension of gaydar
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | gaydar | gaydaren | gaydarer | gaydarerne |
genitive | gaydars | gaydarens | gaydarers | gaydarernes |
Synonyms
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Noun
[edit]gaydar m (plural gaydars, diminutive gaydartje n)
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]gaydar m (uncountable)
- gaydar (ability to detect whether a person is gay)
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:gaydar.
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