kökkenmödding
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Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Danish køkkenmødding, compound of køkken (“kitchen”) + mødding (“midden”). Coined by Danish zoologist and geologist Japetus Steenstrup. According to SAOB and SO attested since 1873.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kökkenmödding c
- (archaeology) a kitchen midden; a prehistoric pile of waste
- (colloquial, figuratively) any collection of unwanted things
- 2019, Heidi Avellan, “På nätet skrattar högern bäst. Eller elakast.”, in Sydsvenskan[1]:
- Men det som möter en där idag liknar alldeles för mycket en kökkenmödding av rykten och påhopp.
- But what one encounters there today is far too similar to a heap of rumors and hopes.
Declension[edit]
| Declension of kökkenmödding | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | kökkenmödding | kökkenmöddingen | kökkenmöddingar | kökkenmöddingarna |
| Genitive | kökkenmöddings | kökkenmöddingens | kökkenmöddingars | kökkenmöddingarnas |