bambatant

Swedish

Etymology

Compound of bamba (“school canteen”) +‎ tant (“lady”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²bambaˌtant/

Noun

bambatant c

1. (dialectal, Gothenburg) a woman who serves food in a school canteen; lunch lady
   • 2009, Kerstin Eikeland, “Det behövs vilja också [Desire is also needed]”, in Göteborgs-Posten‎^[1]:

     Mitt starkaste minne från de första skolåren är den stränga bambatant som stod vid diskinlämningen och kontrollerade att vi barn inte försökte skrapa ner matrester i avfallshinken.

     My strongest memory from my first school years is the stern lunch lady who stood by the area where we left our dishes, making sure that us children weren’t trying to scrape food scraps into the waste bucket.

Declension

Declension of bambatant

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bambatant	bambatants
	definite	bambatanten	bambatantens
plural	indefinite	bambatanter	bambatanters
	definite	bambatanterna	bambatanternas

Synonyms

• mattant