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Swedish
Etymology
Compound of öst (“east”) + dansk (“dane”).
For the humorous sense:
- Partly because the Swedish region Scania lies directly east of the Danish capital Copenhagen.
- Partly because it is a popular joke to say that the region is not part of Sweden, but instead a part of Denmark.
Noun
östdansk c
- An east Dane, an east Danish; something originating of eastern Denmark (a person, an object, a phenomenon, etc...).
- (humorous) Synonym of skåning (“Scanian”).
- Synonym: reservdansk
2020 September 12, Rolf Gustavsson, “Min ungdoms bild av Ruhrområdet är passé [My youth's image of the Ruhr area is passé]”, in Svenska Dagbladet:I de tidiga tonåren gjorde jag min första riktiga utlandsresa. Familjens årliga dagsutflykt till Tivoli och Zoo räknas inte. Köpenhamn var ju inget utland för oss gamla östdanskar.- In my early teens, I made my first real trip abroad. The family's annual day trip to Tivoli and Zoo does not count. Copenhagen was not a foreign country for us old Eastern Danes.
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