gaydar

Englisch

Alternative forms

• gay-dar

Etymology

Blend of gay +‎ radar, early 1980s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪ.dɑɹ/

• Audio (RP):

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Nomen

gaydar (countable and uncountable, plural gaydars)

1. (colloquial) The supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay by observing that person.
   • 2013 May 12, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 368 - January Girls:

     "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 the Guardian‎^[1], retrieved 2022-04-21:

     […] 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.

Hypernyms

• queerdar

Hyponyms

• dykedar, lesdar

Derived terms

• -dar

See also

• nigdar

Translations

ability to detect if a person is gay

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: gay達／gay达 (gèidá), gay达 (gaydá)

• Danish: bøsseradar, gaydar c
• Dutch: gaydar (nl) m
• Finnish: homotutka (fi)
• French: gaydar (fr) m
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• German: Gaydar n
• Japanese: ゲイダー (geidā)
• Portuguese: gaydar (pt) m
• Russian: гейда́р (ru) m (gejdár), гей-рада́р m (gej-radár)
• Swedish: gaydar (sv) c, bögradar
• Vietnamese: trực giác nhận biết đồng tính

Further reading

• “gaydar (n.)”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Anagrams

• rag day

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Dänisch

Etymology

Borrowed from English gaydar.

Nomen

gaydar

1. 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 (translated by anonymous), Sudden death, Gyldendal A/S →ISBN

     Desuden kan også gaydarer tage fejl.

     Besides, gaydars, too, can be wrong.

Declension

Declension of gaydar

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gaydar	gaydaren	gaydarer	gaydarerne
genitive	gaydars	gaydarens	gaydarers	gaydarernes

Synonyms

• bøsseradar

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Dutch

Etymology

From English gaydar.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Nomen

gaydar m (plural gaydars, diminutive gaydartje n)

1. gaydar

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Portuguese

Nomen

gaydar m (uncountable)

1. gaydar (ability to detect whether a person is gay)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:gaydar.