pjoskig

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Swedish[edit]

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pjoskig (comparative pjoskigare, superlative pjoskigast)

  1. showing excessive worry or caution or sentimentality, often in the context of excessive coddling or pampering (e.g. of children)
    Får de inte ens vara ensamma en helg? Gud så pjoskigt!
    Can't they even be alone for a weekend? What overprotective silliness!

Declension[edit]

Inflection of pjoskig
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular pjoskig pjoskigare pjoskigast
Neuter singular pjoskigt pjoskigare pjoskigast
Plural pjoskiga pjoskigare pjoskigast
Masculine plural3 pjoskige pjoskigare pjoskigast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 pjoskige pjoskigare pjoskigaste
All pjoskiga pjoskigare pjoskigaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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