cray

See also: Cray

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹæɪ/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪ

Etymology 1

Clipping of crayfish.

Noun

cray (plural crays)

1. A crayfish or lobster.
   • 2012, Robert B. McCormack, A Guide to Australia's Spiny Freshwater Crayfish, page 47:

     The third stage occurs when the crays moult into miniature adults. They are now completely independent of the mother and leave her permanently after a week or so.

Derived terms

• craybait (Australia)
• crayboat (Australia)
• crayman (Australia)
• craypot (Australia)
• crayweed (Australia)

Etymology 2

Clipping of crazy, with -y to clarify pronunciation. Compare vacay (“vacation”).

Adjective

cray (comparative more cray, superlative most cray)

1. (slang) Crazy.
   • 2010 November 23, Cory Giger, “NFL commish slaps Steelers in face with weak punishment of Seymour”, in The Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pennsylvania:

     That small of a fine for that kind of blatant disregard is cray.

   • 2012 September, “Sharm x Savoy + Kiss = Happy RWD”, in Fazer, number 127, page 80:

     Before his set, RWD somehow found time to back a quick vodka shot in the Ice Bar downstairs - yes we're aware an ice bar in the desert is cray.

   • 2013, Dani Kellner, "20 Things Your Ten Year Old Self Could Do at Cornell", Slope, Spring 2013, page 18:

     Also, make sure you look both ways first, because the traffic is cray.

   • 2021 March 28, Janine Brito, “Dance Dance Resolution” (3:51 from the start), in Bless the Harts‎^[1], season 2, episode 15, spoken by Violet Hart (Jillian Bell):

     “Do you think when hamsters watch us eat, they think we're cute?” “How could they not? I tried to show this amazing vid to my mom. She just stared at me like I was cray. My mom and I don't have much in common anymore. It's, like, a bummer.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cray.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:insane.

Derived terms

• cray-cray
• cray-dar

Anagrams

• Cary, cary, racy

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish cré, Old Irish cré, from Proto-Celtic *kʷrīyess; compare Latin crēta. Gaelic cognates include Scottish Gaelic crè and Irish cré.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kreː/
• Homophone: crea

Noun

cray f

1. clay

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cray	chray	gray
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.