# chingadera
## English
### Etymology

Mexican Spanish chingadera.

### Noun

chingadera (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
## Spanish
### Etymology

From chingar (“to split lengthwise; to screw, to bother”) +‎ -dera.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡ʃinɡaˈdeɾa/ [t͡ʃĩŋ.ɡaˈð̞e.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -eɾa
* Syllabification: chin‧ga‧de‧ra

### Noun

chingadera 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 chingaderaLet’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

### Further reading

* “chingadera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10