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Swedish
Adjective
stöddig (comparative stöddigare, superlative stöddigast)
- (colloquial) overconfident and cocky
En stöddig kille gick runt och muckade gräl med alla på festen- An overconfident cocky guy was walking around picking fights with everyone at the party
Jag borde spelat på en enklare svårighetsgrad. Jag blev stöddig.- I should've played on an easier difficulty level. I was overconfident.
- (dated) big, strong, sturdy
- Han tog sig en stöddig öl ― He had himself a big ("stout") glass of beer
Usage notes
Has masculine connotations (perhaps stemming from (sense 2)), so mostly used about men and boys.
Declension
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
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