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Swedish
Etymology
död (“dead”) + grävare (“digger”)
Noun
dödgrävare c
- a gravedigger (person who digs graves)
- Synonym: gravgrävare
1790, C.M. Bellman, “Epistel 81”, in Fredmans epistlar:Vinkar Charon från sin brusande älf
Och tre gånger sen Dödgräfvaren sjelf- Charon is waving (with hand) from his fizzy river
And so the gravedigger himself is doing three times
- a gravedigger (burying beetle)
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