rappakalja

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish rapakalja. Shifts in sense seems to have gone from "beer" (as in Finnish) via "gruel" (a sense not attested in Finnish) to "mess", to current sense.

Noun

rappakalja c

  1. (confused) nonsense (talk)
    Vilken rappakalja! De verkar inte ha en aning om vad de snackar om.
    What nonsense! They don't seem to have any idea what they're talking about.
  2. (archaic) beer of bad quality

Declension

Declension of rappakalja
nominative genitive
singular indefinite rappakalja rappakaljas
definite rappakaljan rappakaljans
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

References

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