kalenderbitare
Swedish
Etymology
kalender (“calendar, almanac”) + bitare (“biter, one who bites”), first used in 1885 in a humorous account of overdue university students.
Noun
kalenderbitare c
- a (history, sports, statistics) buff, geek, a person overly interested in irrelevant facts found in calendars and almanacs, such as sports results from years ago
Declension
| Declension of kalenderbitare | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | kalenderbitare | kalenderbitaren | kalenderbitare | kalenderbitarna |
| Genitive | kalenderbitares | kalenderbitarens | kalenderbitares | kalenderbitarnas |
References
- kalenderbitare in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
- kalenderbitare in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.