raggare
English
Etymology
From Swedish raggare, from ragga (“to drive around”), from dialectal term raga (“to stagger”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹaɡəɹə/
Noun
raggare (countable and uncountable, plural raggares or raggare)
- Someone who is part of a subculture in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands concerned with American cars and music of the 1950s, comparable to greasers.
- (uncountable) This subculture taken as a whole.
Swedish
Etymology
Compound of ragga + -are (“verb→noun; -er”). From ragga (“flirt, hit-on”, verb), itself originally from haulage slang ragga (“drive log-waste”, verb), ultimately from ragg (“bristle, coarse stiff hair”).[1]
Noun
raggare c
- a raggare (member of the raggare subculture)
- (by extension) someone (usually a man) trying to pick up (meet and seduce) somebody
- strandraggare ― person trying to pick up at the beach
Usage notes
Sometimes (jocularly) anglicized as ragger (plural raggers) by raggare, in line with a fascination with (retro) American culture.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | raggare | raggares |
| definite | raggaren | raggarens | |
| plural | indefinite | raggare | raggares |
| definite | raggarna | raggarnas |
Derived terms
- blöjraggare
- raggarballe med svängdörr (“hot dog”)
- raggarbil (“[often] 1950s to 1970s full-size American V8 car”, literally “raggare car”)
- raggargäng (“a group of these”, literally “raggare gang”)
- raggarskåra (“exposed gluteal cleft”)
- raggarsträng (“abdominal line of hair, treasure trail”)
- strandraggare (“beach pickup artist”)
Related terms
See also
- doftgran (“evergreen-shaped air freshner”)
- dunka plåt (“to slap a car rhythmically to a music beat”, verb)
- pöka (“intercourse”, verb)