hjärnspöke
Appearance
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]hjärna (“brain”) + spöke (“ghost”)
Noun
[edit]hjärnspöke n
- an (often threatening) unreasonable belief based solely on one's thoughts and feelings, a figment of the imagination, a bogeyman, a fantasy
- Det utländska hotet var ett hjärnspöke
- The foreign threat was a figment of their imagination
- Subversiva grupper som arbetar i lönndom och andra hjärnspöken
- Subversive groups working in secret and other bogeymen
Declension
[edit]Declension of hjärnspöke