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bray | cray |

As a proper noun bray

is .

As a noun cray is

a crayfish or lobster.

As an adjective cray is

(slang) crazy.

bray

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) braire, from ).

Verb

(en verb)
  • Of a donkey, to make its cry.
    • Whenever I walked by, that donkey brayed at me.
  • Of a camel, to make its cry.
  • To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.
    • He threw back his head and brayed with laughter.
  • To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
  • * Milton
    • Arms on armour clashing, brayed / Horrible discord.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • And varying notes the war pipes brayed .
  • * Gray
    • Heard ye the din of battle bray ?

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The cry of an ass or donkey.
  • The cry of a camel
  • Any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
  • * Jerrold
    • The bray and roar of multitudinous London.
    Synonyms
    * hee-haw

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) breier (Modern French broyer).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To crush or pound, especially with a mortar.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxvii. 22
    • Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 141:
    • Their heads and shoulders are painted red with the roote Pocone brayed to powder, mixed with oyle [...].
  • (British, chiefly Yorkshire) By extension, to hit someone or something.
  • * 2011 , , Butchers Perfume'' from ''The Beautiful Indifference , Faber and Faber (2011), page 25:
    • If anything he brayed him all the harder - the old family bull recognising his fighting days were close to over.

    cray

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A crayfish or lobster.

    • Etymology 2

    From crazy by shortening.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Crazy.
  • * 2010 , Cory Giger, " NFL commish slaps Steelers in face with weak punishment of Seymour", The Altoona Mirror (Altoona, Pennsylvania), 23 November 2010:
    • That small of a fine for that kind of blatant disregard is cray .
  • * 2012 , " Sharm x Savoy + Kiss = Happy RWD", Fazer , Issue 127, September 2012, page 80:
    • Before his set, RWD somehow found time to back a quick vodka shot in the Ice Bar downstairs - yes we're aware an ice bar in the desert is cray .
  • * 2013 , Dani Kellner, " 20 Things Your Ten Year Old Self Could Do at Cornell", Slope , Spring 2013, page 18:
    • Also, make sure you look both ways first, because the traffic is cray .
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