slasktratt

Swedish

Etymology

slask (“wet waste”) +‎ tratt (“funnel”)

Noun

slasktratt c

1. a sink intended as the main sink for discharging wastewater, often with a large perforated outlet (in a double bowl kitchen sink)

   Synonyms: slask, vask

2. a more or less funnel-shaped bowl connected to a drain, for discharging wastewater
3. (figuratively) a place where (undesirable) things are dumped, a dumping ground
   • 2001 May 12, Eva Erman, En medicinsk slasktratt‎^[1], Dagens Nyheter:

     Mina associationer för mig till ordet schizofreni och hur detta användes mer eller mindre som en slasktratt inom psykiatrin under större delen av det förra seklet. De psykiska symptom man inte riktigt kunde förstå kunde man i alla fall föra in under benämningen schizofreni.

     My associations bring me to the word schizophrenia and how it was used more or less as a dumping ground within psychiatry for the greater part of the last century. The psychological symptoms you didn't really understand you could at least put under the heading of schizophrenia.

Usage notes

The other basin is the diskho.

Declension

Declension of slasktratt

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	slasktratt	slasktratts
	definite	slasktratten	slasktrattens
plural	indefinite	slasktrattar	slasktrattars
	definite	slasktrattarna	slasktrattarnas

See also

• diskbänk (“kitchen sink countertop”)

References

• slasktratt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• slasktratt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)