fjortis

Borrowed from Swedish fjortis (“immature teenager”), from fjorton (“fourteen”) (with the suffix -is, from Latin -is), from Old Swedish fiughertān, fiughurtan (“fourteen”), from Old Norse fjugurtán, fjugrtán, of fjórtán (“fourteen”), from Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun (“fourteen”), from both *fedwōr (“four”), from *petwṓr, from *kʷetwṓr of Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”) + and from *tehun (“ten”), from *tehunt, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t (“ten”). Equivalent to fjorten +‎ -is.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊʈɪs/, /ˈfjʊʁtɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Hyphenation: fjor‧tis

fjortis m (definite singular fjortisen, indefinite plural fjortiser, definite plural fjortisene)

1. (colloquial) a fourteen-year-old
   • 2001, Jon Michelet, Den frosne kvinnen:

     den belgiske kureren fikk fjorten [år i fengsel]. Det er så lang tid som det tar å bli fjortis, og en fjortis er nesten voksen, har levd et lite liv

     the Belgian courier received fourteen [years in prison]. It's as long as it takes to be a fourteen-year-old, and a fourteen-year-old is almost an adult, has lived a short life

2. (colloquial, slang) a (more often female) teenager prone to immature or shallow behavior, a teenybopper
   • 1991 July 13, Dagbladet, page 7:

     de tre [intervjuede 17-åringene] forteller at de unngår disko hvor det vanker «fjortiser»

     the three [interviewed 17-year-olds] say that they avoid discos where "fourteen-year-olds" are common

   • 1997, Morten Jørgensen, Kongen av København, page 126:

     [han] kom til å dø av ecstasy mens han stirra på en navlebar fjortis

     [he] would die of ecstasy while staring at a bare-bellied teenybopper

   • 2004, Frode Øverli, Pondus. Flar firer, page 135:

     trøst deg med at den dagen det blir hipt å være fjortis med briller og kviser vil du bli sett på som en trendsetter

     take comfort in the fact that the day it gets hip to be a teenybopper with glasses and pimples you will be seen as a trendsetter

• tenåring (“teenager”)

• “fjortis” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Clipping of fjorton (“fourteen”) +‎ -is.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjoːʈɪs/, /ˈfjuːʈɪs/

fjortis c

1. (colloquial) a (more often female) teenager prone to immature or shallow behavior
   • 2001 February 18, Sara Gemzell, “Fjortisuppror”, in Aftonbladet:

     För vuxna är lite dåliga på lyssna på fjortisar när de vill föra fram sina åsikter.

     Because adults are a bit bad at listening to fjortisar when they want to express their opinions.

• fjortisfylla (“teen drunkenness”)

• → Norwegian Bokmål: fjortis

• P12:a
• kjam
• pözz

• fjortis in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fjortis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)