fjockla

Swedish

Verb

fjockla

  1. (Southern) To faff, fumble, fiddle, or clumsily struggle with something, especially when it is difficult to handle due to awkward design, malfunction, or lack of skill.
    • 1915 October 9, Kalle i Dalen, “Bygdekrönika – Bekymmerstider [Village Chronicle – Times of Trouble]”, in Kalmar, page 7:
      Jesses dä ä väl inte frå pojken i Amerika, undrade Lars och slängde träskorna i golfvet. Men han togs sannerligen ur sin villfarelse. Hans fingrar fjocklade upp ett firmastämpladt kuvert och en räkning blottades.
      Lawks, that bain’t from the boy in America, surely, muttered Lars and threw his clogs onto the floor. But he was soon taken out of his delusion. His fingers fumbled open an envelope stamped by a firm, and a bill was laid bare.
    • 2011 July 3, “Byta tråd på trimmern... [Changing the line on the trimmer...]”, in Byggahus.se (forum):
      Det är en stiga. och man sätter en plastnyckel "underst" på trådhuset och vrider. Efter att man öppnat upp ska man linda på ny tråd, fjockla ut den genom hålen, och skruva ihop.
      It’s a Stiga. You insert a plastic key underneath the spool housing and twist. Once it’s open, you wind on new line, faff it through the holes, and screw it back together.
    • 2019 December 23, anonymous author, “Dålig mobiltäckning ett problem i hemtjänsten [Poor mobile coverage a problem in home care]”, in Smålänningen (letter to the editor):
      Man slängs ut ur systemet om man inte har varit aktiv de senaste 30 minuterarna. VEM har tid i dessa besparingstider att hålla på att fjockla med denna telefon?!
      You get kicked out of the system if you haven’t been active in the past 30 minutes. WHO has time, in these times of cutbacks, to fiddle around with this phone?!
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