purken

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• purka

Noun

purken m or f

1. definite masculine singular of purke

Swedish

Etymology

First attested in 1843.

Adjective

purken (comparative purknare, superlative purknast)

1. (colloquial) grumpy, displeased (due to some perceived injustice)
   • 2019 January 31, Hasse Gänger, “Leif GW Persson: Jag har skonat många i min nya bok [Leif GW Persson: I have spared many in my new book.]”, in Allas:

     Jag blir förstås lite purken när vissa påstår att jag har varit lat.

     I naturally get a bit upset when some claim that I've been lazy.

2. (dialect, obsolete) miserable, poor

Declension

Inflection of purken

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	purken	purknare	purknast
neuter singular	purket	purknare	purknast
plural	purkna	purknare	purknast
masculine plural2	purkne	purknare	purknast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	purkne	purknare	purknaste
all	purkna	purknare	purknaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Synonyms

(grumpy, displeased):

• misslynt
• sticken
• surmulen
• trumpen
• tvär

References

• purken in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• purken in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• purken in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)