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Swedish
Etymology
Reduplication of hysch. First attested in 1966[1]. Coined by Swedish journalist Gösta Ollén.[2] Compare English hush-hush.
Noun
hysch-hysch n
- secrecy
1982, Barbro Alving, “Första modereportaget i Pravda [The first fashion report in Pravda]”, in Klipp ur nuets historia, page 316:Men när vi kom till Pravda så gick vi isär. Det var som sagt var alls inte oginhet, och inget speciellt hysch-hysch just med Pravda. Vi talade bara olika språk, lite stolligt förbi varandra.- But when we got to Pravda, we drifted apart. As I said, it wasn’t due to any unkindness or any particular secrecy with Pravda. We just spoke different languages, a bit foolishly past each other.
2010 June 7, Janna Ayres, “Jag är inte så mycket för hysch-hysch [I’m not really into all the hush-hush stuff.]”, in Handelsnytt:Allt man pratar om som rör sakfrågorna ska vara konfidentiellt, så går det till i förhandlingar. Men hysch-hyschet runt omkring är jag inte så mycket för.- Everything discussed that concerns the topics should be confidential, that’s how negotiations work. But the secrecy around everything else isn’t really my thing.
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References
- ^ hysch-hysch in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- ^ Dante Thomsen (2011 March 1) “Expressen bannlyser naken-chocken [Expressen bans the naked-shock]”, in Dagens Media (in Swedish), archived from the original on 4 March 2011: “Expressen har ju en tradition av att etablera ord, som "hyschhysch" eller "hurtbulle" som Gösta Ollén kom på, […] ― Expressen has a tradition of establishing words, like 'hyschhysch' or 'hurtbulle,' which Gösta Ollén came up with, ”