knyck

Swedish

Etymology

Deverbal from knycka.

Noun

knyck c

  1. a twitch, a jerk (short, abrupt, sudden, fairly stiff motion)
    en knyck på nacken
    a twitch of the neck, (often) bridling
  2. (colloquial) Synonym of kilometer i timmen (“kilometers per hour”)
    Synonyms: km/tim, km/h
    De körde i hundra knyck
    They were going a hundred kilometers per hour
    • 2022 September 11, Marcus Berggren, “Körde 400 knyck på allmän väg – slipper åtal [Drove 400 km/h on a public road - avoids prosecution]”, in Dagens PS‎:
      I november 2021 rapporterade vi om en Bugatti-ägare som körde 417 knyck på tyska autobahn. Han riskerade fängelse men nu har förundersökningen lagts ner.
      In November 2021, we reported on a Bugatti owner who drove 417 km/h on the German autobahn. He risked prison, but now the preliminary investigation has been closed.

Declension
Declension of knyck 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative knyck knycken knyckar knyckarna
Genitive knycks knyckens knyckars knyckarnas

Verb

knyck

  1. imperative of knycka

References
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