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bov.

a criminal, chiefly a thief or robber

3 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/buːv/

  1. a criminal, chiefly a thief or robber

    colloquial · common-gender
    Björnbusarna är bovar
    jaga bovar

  2. a crook (dishonest, immoral, etc. person) a villain, a culprit (person or thing doing bad, in some context)

    colloquial · common-gender

  3. a crook (dishonest, immoral, etc. person) the culprit, the villain of the piece (the person or thing that is the cause of trouble)

    colloquial · common-gender · idiomatic

  4. a thief (something that takes away something inordinately or the like)

    colloquial · common-gender · figuratively
    energibov
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish bōve, from Middle Low German bōve, from Proto-Germanic *bō-.

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