torsk

From Swedish torsk.

• IPA^(key): /tɔɹsk/

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torsk (plural torsks)

1. An edible fish, Brosme brosme.

   Synonym: cusk

• Korts, skort, stork

From Old Norse þorskr.

• IPA^(key): /tɔːrsk/, [tˢɒːsɡ̊]

torsk c (singular definite torsken, plural indefinite torsk)

1. cod, codfish
2. (derogatory) ass, fool

From Old Norse þorskr, þoskr.

torsk m (definite singular torsken, indefinite plural torsker, definite plural torskene)

1. a cod

• “torsk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse þorskr, þoskr, from Proto-Germanic *þurskaz.

• IPA^(key): [tʰɞ̞sk], [tʰɞ̞r̥ˠsk], [tʰɞ̞ʂk]

torsk m (definite singular torsken, indefinite plural torskar, definite plural torskane)

1. a cod

• “torsk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Swedish þorsker, from Old Norse þorskr, from Proto-Germanic *þurskaz.

• IPA^(key): /tɔrsk/

• Audio:

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torsk c

2. cod, codfish

   kokt torsk med äggsås

   boiled cod with egg sauce [or "poached cod," but the recipe is usually called "kokt torsk" and not "pocherad torsk"]

3. (colloquial) a john, a punter (person who solicits the service of prostitutes)

   Synonym: sexköpare

4. thrush (oral candidiasis)
6. (slang, often used adjectivally, and then only predicatively) (someone or something) toast (having suffered a setback or hopeless); (used as a noun) a goner, a loss, etc.

   soppatorsk

   out of gas [colloquial]

   (literally, “juice ["soup" – slang] toast”)

   1. (someone) busted (caught doing something illegal)

      Polisen kom och det blev torsk

      The police came and I was busted [it was [became] toast]

   3. (sports) losing

      Laget åkte på torsk

      The team took a loss

   4. (more or less figuratively, as "torsk på något" when specifying the thing succumbed to) (someone) having succumbed to something; (especially) (someone) hooked
      1. (in reference to drugs) hooked; a junkie

         vara torsk på heroin / en herointorsk

         be hooked on heroin / a heroin junkie

      3. (in reference to interests) passionately into something; a sucker (for something), nuts (about something)

         vara torsk på julmusik

         be a sucker for Christmas songs

         Torsk på Tallinn

         Screwed in Tallinn [a comedy mockumentary]

         (literally, “Sucker for Tallinn / John [person who solicits the service of prostitutes] in Tallinn [double entendre – "på [on] Tallinn" as opposed to "i [in] Tallinn" is rare in Swedish as well]”)

Now uncommon in the general (sense 4). Most common in (sense 4.2) and (sense 4.3.2).

• torsk in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• torsk in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• torsk in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• korts, skrot, stork