gask

Swedish

Alternative forms

• (Archaic and jocular) gasque

Etymology

Uncertain.

Likely borrowed from Italian casco and Spanish cascarela, cáscara. Originally a term in the cardgame l'Hombre, later incorporated with the game Vira, later incorporated with student slang. First attested in 1734.

Noun

gask c

1. (card games) A bid in l'Hombre. [since 1817]
2. (card games) A somewhat high and adventurous bid in Vira. [since 1898]
3. A type of (more or less) formal (university) student party. [since 1897]

Declension

Declension of gask

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	gask	gasks
	definite	gasken	gaskens
plural	indefinite	gaskar	gaskars
	definite	gaskarna	gaskarnas

In sense 3:

Declension of gask

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	gask	gasks
	definite	gasken	gaskens
plural	indefinite	gasker	gaskers
	definite	gaskerna	gaskernas

Derived terms

• slask, slasque (“less tidy student party”)

References

• gask in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)