rappakalja
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Finnish rapakalja. Shifts in sense seems to have gone from "beer" (as in Finnish) via "gruel" (a sense not attested in Finnish) to "mess", to current sense.
Noun
[edit]rappakalja c
- (confused) nonsense (talk)
- Vilken rappakalja! De verkar inte ha en aning om vad de snackar om.
- What nonsense! They don't seem to have any idea what they're talking about.
- (archaic) beer of bad quality
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | rappakalja | rappakaljas |
| definite | rappakaljan | rappakaljans | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |