Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗suffix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryForming nouns denoting a putative ability to detect a thing.
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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