stekare
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Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish stekare. Suffix of steka (“fry”) + -are (“-er”). According to SAOB attested since 1608.
In lifestyle sense; unknown origin. According to SO attested since 2000.
Noun
stekare c
- A roaster; one who roasts and fries food.
- 1926, Sigfrid Siwertz, “Den hundramila oasen”, in En färd till Abessinien, page 22:
- Gäss och tranor gödas, bagare och stekare synas i fullt arbete, hus och båtar byggas och tredskande skattebetalare släpas inför stränga skrivare, […]
- Geese and cranes are fattened, bakers and roasters are seen at full work, houses and boats are built and demanding taxpayers are dragged before stern clerks,
- (colloquial, lifestyle) A member of the (Swedish) upper class with an expensive, flashy lifestyle, especially one perceived to flaunt their wealth.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | stekare | stekares |
| definite | stekaren | stekarens | |
| plural | indefinite | stekare | stekares |
| definite | stekarna | stekarnas |
Related terms
See also
- backslick (“slicked-back hair”)
- dompa (“Dom Pérignon”)
- vaska (“to buy champagne and pour it down the drain”)
- grilljanne (“style; mix of dandy and fin de siècle”)
- swingpjatt (“style; influenced by zoot suits”)