tös

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Etymology

Related to Danish tøs, Norwegian taus, dialectal Swedish Tösa, dialectal Norwegian tysja (“naughty woman”), all said to be from an imitative word (Lautmalerei).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

tös c

  1. (colloquial) a girl (female child or young woman)
    1. a lass, a lassie, a gal
      • 1961, “Te dans mä Karlstatösera [Till dans med Karlstadstöserna [ dance with the Karlstad gals]”, Rune Lindström (lyrics), Erik Uppström (music)‎performed by Sven-Ingvars:
        [dialectal, Värmländska, partially normalized]
        Det är lördag i dag och det gör mig hjärteglad,
        och mitt öga det blänker som sol i Karlstad stad.
        Det är Munter och Lustig och Rännare och jag,
        som på banan ska spänna krigarvadera [krigarvaderna].

        Det är sjunkande sol, det är klang i en fiol,
        och från dungarna luktar det löv och nattviol.
        Det är Lilli och Gully och Ingeborg där Nol,
        och de svansar och svänger med med sin söndagskjol.

        Hej, ropar pöjkera [pojkarna] och sprätter med klacken,
        stampar i backen, knycker på nacken.
        Tjo, vad det klappar under krigarefracken.
        Nu blir det dans med Karlstatösera [Karlstadstöserna].

        Hej, vad det sviktar uti dansbanans bräder,
        plankera [plankorna] rungar, björkruskor gungar.
        Tjo, vad det flaxar i volang och revärer.
        Schottisen går med Karlstatösera [Karlstadstöserna].
        It is Saturday today and it makes my heart happy,
        and my eye gleams like the sun in Karlstad.
        It is Munter and Lustig and Rännare and me,
        who are going to flex our warrior calves on the pavilion.

        There is setting sun, there is the sound of a violin,
        and from the groves it smells of leaves and butterfly orchid.
        It is Lilli and Gully and Ingeborg from Nol,
        and they prance and swing their Sunday skirt.

        Hey, shout the boys and flick their heel,
        stomp the ground, snap their head .
        Woo , how it throbs under my warrior coat.
        Now there will be a dance with the Karlstad gals.

        Hey, how the boards of the dance pavilion bend ,
        the planks resound, green birch boughs swing.
        Woo, how the flounce and lampasses flap .
        There is a schottische with the Karlstad gals .

Usage notes

Not regionally limited like lass/lassie, but often a good match for tone when translating from English. Can sound like laying it on a bit thick in the other direction, unless fitting for the context. Plain flicka (“girl”) (tjej can sound too modern) also works as a translation for lass, leaning in less.

Declension

Declension of tös 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tös tösen töser töserna
Genitive tös tösens tösers tösernas

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References

  1. ^ “tös”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok ‎ (in Swedish), 1937

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