flarra

Swedish

Etymology

Derived from flaska (“bottle”) by a colloquial formation changing certain /s/ consonant clusters into -rr-. Compare fisk > firre (“fish”) and smaskig > smarrig (“yummy, tasty”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /²flara/
Rhymes: -²ara

Noun

flarra c

(colloquial) a bottle
Synonym: flaska
- 2015, Thomas Berglund, “Här är årets bästa starkare julöl”, in Svenska Dagbladet‎^[1]:
  Corsendonk kommer i år i en praktfull ”sharing bottle” i stället för en liten flarra om 25 cl.
  This year Corsendonk comes in a magnificent ”sharing bottle” instead of a small bottle of 25 cl.

Declension

Declension of *flarra*
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	flarra	flarras
singular	definite	flarran	flarrans
plural	indefinite	flarror	flarrors
plural	definite	flarrorna	flarrornas

References

Slangopedia
Per Ledin (2013 March 28) “Glad pårre igen!”, in På svenska‎^[2] (Blog), archived from the original on 26 September 2020