chingadera
English
editEtymology
editMexican Spanish chingadera.
Noun
editchingadera (plural chingaderas)
- (US, vulgar, Spanglish) A miscellaneous object for which one does not know, or has forgotten, its proper name; a doohickey, contraption, thingamabob, or widget.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:thingy
- 1946, My Darling Clementine, dir. John Ford, written by Samuel G. Engel, Winston Miller
- “There goes that chingadera again.”
- 2003, Richard Yañez, El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border, University of Nevada Press, page 27:
- “The chingadera was heavy. […] ”
- 2008, Margo Candela, More Than This: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 187:
- “What is this chingadera, Son?”
- 2009, B. C. Legans, Cerro, iUniverse, page 237:
- “Back in the old days they used any kind of chingadera to make a whatever. […] ”
Translations
editSpanish
editEtymology
editFrom chingar (“to split lengthwise”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchingadera f (plural chingaderas)
- (dated) a small pile, such as of firewood
- (Mexico, vulgar) an immoral or illegal act, often with the idea of treason or deceit
- 2008, Fausto Ponce, Fuera de lugar, Lulu.com, page 7:
- Nunca te va a hacer una chingadera.
- He will never screw you over.
- 2011, Antonio P. Peñalosa, La patria que no rumbo al 2012, Palibrio, page 596:
- […] , para no tener que decir que en la práctica Calles cometió una gran chingadera en contra de nuestra nación.
- […] , so he doesn’t have to say that in practice Calles committed great treachery against our nation.
- 2012, José Luis García Cabrera, ¡El Pastel!, part 2, Palibrio, page 83:
- Cometiste una chingadera y ahora verás tú como la remedias.
- You committed a crime and now you will see how you can remedy it.
- (Mexico, vulgar) shit, crap (a thing of little value or quality, or an unspecified object)
- 1994, Elena Poniatowska, “Luz y luna, las lunitas”, in Era, page 52:
- Quíteme esa chingadera de allí.
- Get rid of that crap there.
- 2008, Ulises Morales Ponce, Welcome coyote, Universidad Veracruzana, page 63:
- Ella gana cinco mil dólares en una noche vendiendo chingadera.
- She earns five thousand dollars in one night selling crap.
- 2012, Bernardo Fernández, Hielo negro, Grijalbo, page 55:
- La chingadera vendía bien.
- The crap sold well.
- (Mexico, vulgar) bullshit (nonsense, stupidity, false statements)
- a. 1997, Juan Villoro, Coyote in 1997, Julio Ortega, Antología del cuento latinoamericano del siglo XXI, XXI, page 282:
- Vamos a quitarle esa chingadera
- Let’s cut the crap
- a. 1998, Roberto Flores, Tipos de sucesos en la progresión narrativa in 1998, Cuarto Encontro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, volume 3, Universidad de Sonora, page 226:
- Es una chingadera de Rosales, una broma imbécil, siempre ha sido un cabrón.
- It’s bullshit from Rosales, a stupid joke, he has always been a jackass.
- 2013, Eva Castro Pérez, Un rincón de la sierra, Palibrio, page 168:
- ¿O tu amistad es una chingadera nomás?
- Or is your friendship just bullshit?
- ¡Son chingaderas! ― Bullshit!
- decir chingaderas ― to bullshit
- a. 1997, Juan Villoro, Coyote in 1997, Julio Ortega, Antología del cuento latinoamericano del siglo XXI, XXI, page 282:
Further reading
edit- “chingadera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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