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flina.

to grin (smile in a cheeky, mocking, silly, stupid, or similar way, or "in a less beautiful way," as Svensk ordbok puts it)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. to grin (smile in a cheeky, mocking, silly, stupid, or similar way, or "in a less beautiful way," as Svensk ordbok puts it)

  2. to grin (smile in a cheeky, mocking, silly, stupid, or similar way, or "in a less beautiful way," as Svensk ordbok puts it) to smile (when sounding better)

    Vad flinar du åt?!
  3. to laugh (in a similar manner)

    uncommon
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Germanic *flinōną (“to bare (one's teeth), smile”), from a Proto-Indo-European *pley- (“bare, bald, flat”). Cognate with Elfdalian flinå (“smile”); outside of Germanic, compare Lithuanian pli̇̀kas (“bald”), Latvian pliks (“bare, bald”). The root may be further connected to Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to cleave, to split off, to cast off”) (that smiling is a "splitting" of one's mouth), see Proto-Germanic *splītaną (“to split”) for more on the root.

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