Rövarspråket

See also: rövarspråket

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish rövarspråket (“the language of robbers”), from rövare (“robber”) + språket (“the language”).

Proper noun

Examples
father becomes fofatothoheror laugh becomes lolaugoghoh Rövarspråket becomes Rorövovarorsospoproråkoketot

Rövarspråket

1. A type of wordplay that originated in Sweden in which the consonants of words are doubled, with the letter o inserted between them.

Translations

type of wordplay developed in Sweden

• Danish: røversprog n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: røverspråket n

• Swedish: rövarspråket (sv) n