chingadera

English

Etymology

Mexican Spanish chingadera.

Noun

chingadera (plural chingaderas)

  1. (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

Spanish

Etymology

From chingar (“to split lengthwise”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃinɡaˈdeɾa/ [t͡ʃĩŋ.ɡaˈð̞e.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -eɾa
  • Syllabification: chin‧ga‧de‧ra

Noun

chingadera f (plural chingaderas)

  1. (dated) a small pile, such as of firewood
  2. (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.
  3. (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.
  4. (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

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