lucker
See also: Lucker
English
Noun
lucker (plural luckers)
- (slang) A very lucky person.
- 1920, Angela Brazil, The Princess of the School:
- You lucker! My train doesn't start till ten! I begged and implored Miss Walters to let me leave by the early one, and wait at the junction, but she would not hear of it, so I've got to stop here kicking my heels, […]
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Low German lukker, further origin uncertain. Cognate of German locker.
Usage notes
Especially common to describe soil.
Declension
| Inflection of lucker | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | lucker | luckrare | luckrast |
| Neuter singular | luckert | luckrare | luckrast |
| Plural | luckra | luckrare | luckrast |
| Masculine plural3 | luckre | luckrare | luckrast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | luckre | luckrare | luckraste |
| All | luckra | luckrare | luckraste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
References
- lucker in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- lucker in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- lucker in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- lucker in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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