You know how it is when you encounter a word and then suddenly you start noticing it everywhere? One that’s seemed to pop up is cray, or cray-cray, a slang variant of crazy. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Cray”
There’s something called the frequency illusion.
Remember this?
Oh, yeah.
This is when you encounter a word, and then you become kind of obsessed with it and feel like you see it everywhere.
Well, that word for me these days is cray, C-R-A-Y.
Cray.
Cray.
It means crazy.
Oh, really?
And it’s been around for quite a while as a slang word, and a lot of times people say cray-cray.
You so cray-cray.
Oh, really?
And a lot of times it’s done in hip-hop and black films and shows featuring black actors.
It’s got an African-American commode to it.
But the word has become so kind of various that it now has morphed into cray-ness.
Cray-ness.
Yeah, his cray-ness was just outstanding.
So if you did all this wacky stuff on set, you might say it about an actor, right?
Meaning craziness.
I love it.
So cray means crazy.
Cray-cray is very crazy.
And your cray-ness is your craziness.
Now I’m going to see it everywhere still, right?
Now I have a word for it.
Thank you.
You so cray, Martha.
