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torsk.

cod, codfish

5 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/tɔrsk/

  1. cod, codfish

    common-gender
    kokt torsk med äggsås

  2. a john, a punter (person who solicits the service of prostitutes)

    colloquial · common-gender

  3. thrush (oral candidiasis)

    common-gender

  4. (someone or something) toast (having suffered a setback or hopeless); (used as a noun) a goner, a loss, etc.

    common-gender · often · slang
    soppatorsk

  5. (someone or something) toast (having suffered a setback or hopeless); (used as a noun) a goner, a loss, etc. busted (caught doing something illegal)

    common-gender · often · slang
    Polisen kom och det blev torsk

  6. (someone or something) toast (having suffered a setback or hopeless); (used as a noun) a goner, a loss, etc. losing

    common-gender · often · slang
    Laget åkte på torsk

  7. (someone or something) toast (having suffered a setback or hopeless); (used as a noun) a goner, a loss, etc. (someone) having succumbed to something; (especially) (someone) hooked hooked; a junkie

    common-gender · often · slang
    vara torsk på heroin / en herointorsk

  8. (someone or something) toast (having suffered a setback or hopeless); (used as a noun) a goner, a loss, etc. (someone) having succumbed to something; (especially) (someone) hooked passionately into something; a sucker (for something), nuts (about something)

    common-gender · often · slang
    vara torsk på julmusik
    Torsk på Tallinn
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish þorsker, from Old Norse þorskr, from Proto-Germanic *þurskaz.

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