landeplage

Danish

Etymology

land +‎ -e- +‎ plage, "scourge of the land".

Noun

landeplage

  1. (dated) something that negatively affects everyone living in some area
    • 1849, Henrik Hertz, Hundrede Aar: polemisk Comedie i fire Decorationer med Forspil, Efterspil og Parabaser, page 148:
      Ei kan med Bajonetter / Ægyptens Pascha jage / Fra sine Bomulds-Sletter / Græshoppens Landeplage.
      The pasha of Egypt cannot / with bayonets chase / from his cotton fields / the scourge that is the locust.
    • 1896, Alfr Lehmann, Overtro og trolddom fra de æeldste tider til vore dage:
      Man mente ved Straffenes Strænghed at kunne sætte en Stopper for den Landeplage, man mente var kommen; ...
      It was believed that, with the severity of the punishments, one could put a stop to the scourge of the land that it was felt had arrived; ...
  2. a hit song (song that is played frequently for a time)
    • 2013, Karl Aage Rasmussen, Alle farver, alle sjæle: En bog om George Gershwin, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
      I januar 1920 pladeindspillede han sangen for Columbia Records, og nu blev den en sand landeplage.
      In January 1920, he recorded the song for Columbia Records, and it now became a true hit song.
    • 2011, Stig Matthiesen, Poul Krebs - Der er noget ved alting, ArtPeople, →ISBN:
      En sang med potentiale til at blive en landeplage!
      A song with the potential to become a hit!
    • 1965, Johannes Fabricius, Carl Nielsen, 1865-1931: En Billedbiografi. A Pictorial Biography:
      Da komponisten året efter skrev endnu en folkesang med titlen »Jens Vejmand«, oplevede denne at blive en landeplage.
      When, the year after, the composer wrote another folk song titled "Jens Road-mender", this song experienced becoming a hit song.[sic]

Declension
Declension of landeplage
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative landeplage landeplagen landeplager landeplagerne
genitive landeplages landeplagens landeplagers landeplagernes
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