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Eken.

nickname for Stockholm: the capital and largest city of Sweden

4 characters2 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

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  1. nickname for Stockholm: the capital and largest city of Sweden

    common-gender · slang
Where this word comes from

From the peddler cant månsing word Storhäcken or Stockhäcken, which was later clipped to häcken and modified to eken through the traditional Stockholm merger of /ɛ/ > /e/.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.