English Explanatory Dictionary

-dar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Forming nouns denoting a putative ability to detect a thing.

Pronunciation

-där /-dɑː/ /-dɑɹ/ /-dɐː/ /-daɹ/ /-ɖɑː(ɾ)/

Word forms

-dar

Etymology

Probably from rebracketing of gaydar, itself a blend of gay + radar. Alternatively radar might have been rebracketed directly as ray + -dar, but this appears less likely because rays are, if anything, that by means of which a radar detects things.

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