bajs
Swedish
Etymology
Attested since 1842 as baj (“feces”), usually in the expression fy baj, a form of reprimand used for and by small children. Johan Ernst Rietz Svenskt dialektlexikon ("Swedish dialect dictionary") also suggests[1] a relation to Middle High German baht.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bajs/
Noun
bajs n
- (informal or childish) poop, poo (feces)
- Synonyms: skit, avföring, fekalier, exkrement, träck, (droppings) spillning
- hundbajs
- dog poop
- fågelbajs
- bird poop
- Du luktar bajs
- You smell like poop
- – Säg "köpa, se, stol, tio" på engelska! – Buy, see, chair, ten.
- – Say "buy, see, chair, ten" in English! – Buy, see, chair, ten (sounds like "bajs i stjärten" (poop in the butt) – widespread joke).
- 2000, Tunnan och Moroten (lyrics and music), “Bajs i Bastun [Poo in the Sauna]”, in Bajs i Bastun:
- Det var smetat bajs på väggarna. Det var skit överallt. Det luktade bajs i korridoren. Skiten låg överallt.
- There was poo smeared on the walls. There was shit everywhere. It smelled like poo in the corridor. The shit lay everywhere.
Declension
| Declension of bajs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | bajs | bajset | — | — |
| Genitive | bajs | bajsets | — | — |
Derived terms
- bajsblöja
- bajsbrun
- bajskorv (“turd”)
- brunka
- kiss och bajs-humor (“toilet humor”)
References
- baj in Johan Ernst Rietz, Svenskt dialektlexikon (1862–1867)
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