sumprunkare
Swedish
Noun
sumprunkare c
- (occupation, historical) A person who rocked corves, or fisher-boats with livewells, at a dock to oxygenate the water and keep the fish within alive.
- Hypernym: sjåare (“stevedore”)
- 1865, anonymous author, Sekter Klyfverts sommarnöje, page 64:
- Hufvudstadens hamnbusar och roddarmadamer, åkare och fiskköpare, sumprunkare och schåare voro idel civiliseradt folk i jemnförelse med dem — folk med verklig bildning, god ton och ännu bättre manér...
- The capital's dockworkers and rowing ladies, hauliers and fishmongers, corf-rockers and stowadores were ideal civilized people in comparison with them — people with real education, good tone and even better manners ...
- 1900 September 15, “Den snarfyndige sumprunkaren [The resourceful corf-rocker]”, in Kläm, page 3:
- I »förmaket» tilltalades han af en poliskonstapel, som sporde hvad yrke han hade.
— Jag är sumprunkare, svarade arrestanten.
— Sumprunkare! utbrast polismannen – det yrket finns ju knappast mera kvar, och för resten är det ett dåligt yrke.- In the "atrium" he was addressed by a police constable, who asked what profession he had.
– I'm a corf-rocker, the detainee replied.
– Corf-rocker! exclaimed the policeman – that profession hardly exists anymore, and beside it is a bad profession.
- In the "atrium" he was addressed by a police constable, who asked what profession he had.
- (derogatory) A contemptible person.
- 1895, Gustaf Stålhandske, Sägner från sjön, page 31:
- "Edra fördömda sumprunkare, jag skall, f—n i min talj, en gång kölhala er, när vi nästa gång råkas!" ljöd hans afskedshälsning till de bortresande olyckskamraterna.
- "Your damned corf-rockers, I'll, curse my flesh, keelhaul you, the next time we see each other!" sounded his farewell to his departing shipwrecked comrades.
Declension
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sumprunkare | sumprunkaren | sumprunkare | sumprunkarna |
Genitive | sumprunkares | sumprunkarens | sumprunkares | sumprunkarnas |
References
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