köttberg
Swedish
Etymology
kött (“meat”) + berg (“mountain”), used since the 1970s. The second sense was coined in December 2004 by Pär Nuder.[1]
Noun
köttberg n
- (Sweden's) national surplus of meat, produced with Cold War farm subsidies
- baby boomers, the generation born in the 1940s, filling all available job positions
Declension
| Declension of köttberg | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | köttberg | köttberget | köttberg | köttbergen |
| Genitive | köttbergs | köttbergets | köttbergs | köttbergens |
Synonyms
- [2] Jätteproppen Orvar
References
- "40-talisterna är ett stort köttberg", Expressen, 2 December 2004.
- köttberg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)