knyck

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Deverbal from knycka.

Noun

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knyck c

  1. a twitch, a jerk (short, abrupt, sudden, fairly stiff motion)
    en knyck på nacken
    a twitch of the neck, (often) bridling
  2. (colloquial) Synonym of kilometer i timmen (“kilometers per hour”)
    Synonyms: km/tim, km/h
    De körde i hundra knyck
    They were going a hundred kilometers per hour
    • 2022 September 11, Marcus Berggren, “Körde 400 knyck på allmän väg – slipper åtal”, in Dagens PS‎[1]:
      I november 2021 rapporterade vi om en Bugatti-ägare som körde 417 knyck på tyska autobahn. Han riskerade fängelse men nu har förundersökningen lagts ner.
      In November 2021, we reported on a Bugatti owner who drove 417 km/h on the German autobahn. He risked prison, but now the preliminary investigation has been closed.

Declension

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Declension of knyck
nominative genitive
singular indefinite knyck knycks
definite knycken knyckens
plural indefinite knyckar knyckars
definite knyckarna knyckarnas

Verb

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knyck

  1. imperative of knycka

References

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