skörlevnadsman

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish skörlifnads man, equivalent to skörlevnad +‎ -s- +‎ man.

Noun

skörlevnadsman c

  1. (dated) adulterer, fornicator, libertine
    • 1960, Alf Åberg, “Bondesamhället”, in Nils Dacke och landsfadern‎[1], LT:s förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 7 May 2025, page 26:
      Fordringarna på prästen var inte höga: "Han skall icke vara mördare eller mandråpare, icke kyrkotjuv eller klosterrymmare, icke dobblare eller drinkare, icke skörlevnadsman eller [torsk]."
      The demands on the priest were not high: "He shall not be a murderer or a manslayer, not a church thief or a monastery runaway, not a gambler or a drunkard, not a fornicator or a john."

Declension

Declension of skörlevnadsman
nominative genitive
singular indefinite skörlevnadsman skörlevnadsmans
definite skörlevnadsmannen skörlevnadsmannens
plural indefinite skörlevnadsmän skörlevnadsmäns
definite skörlevnadsmännen skörlevnadsmännens

References

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