cray

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English

Pronunciation

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.
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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, 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.
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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

Noun

cray f (genitive singular craie, no plural)

  1. clay

Mutation

Mutation of cray
radical lenition eclipsis
cray chray gray

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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