peparmøy

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From pepar (“pepper”) +‎ møy (“maid”), after the male equivalent peparsvein.

Noun

peparmøy f (definite singular peparmøya, indefinite plural peparmøyar or peparmøyer, definite plural peparmøyane or peparmøyene)

  1. an unmarried woman past the age of thirty

See also

  • peppermø (Bokmål)

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.