Danish–English dictionary

skoledreng

A boy attending school.

skoleelev

A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.

skolegård

(chiefly, UK) An open field near a school used for recreation by the students.

skolekammerat

A person who was a fellow attendee at one's school.

skolepige

A girl attending school.

skolopender

Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.

skomager

A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

skonnert

(watercraft) A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.

skop

Used to make terms denoting an instrument used for viewing or examination.

skorpe

A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc

skorpion

Someone with a Scorpio star sign

Skorpionen

(astrology) The zodiac sign for the scorpion, ruled by Mars and covering October 23 - November 22 (tropical astrology) or November 16 - December 15 (sidereal astrology).

skorsten

A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.

skorstenspibe

A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.

skosål

(footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.

skot

(nautical) A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.

Skotland

A constituent country of the United Kingdom, located in northwest Europe to the north of England.

skotøj

Items or an item of clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc.

skotsk

In or from Caledonia; (jocularly) Scottish.

skotskternet

Made of tartan (noun sense 1), or having a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles like a that of a tartan.

skotte

A native or inhabitant of Caledonia; a Scot.

skovflåt

A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

skovhugger

A person whose work is to fell trees.

skovklædt

Covered in forest.

skovl

Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).

skovlfuld

The amount that can be moved at once with a shovel.

skovmærke

An aromatic perennial plant, formerly used as a strewing herb, Galium odoratum (formerly Asperula odorata), with small white flowers.

skovmurmeldyr

(Northern US) A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.

skovrider

A person entrusted with protecting and preserving public forested land.

skovsanger

Any of various small passerine songbirds, especially of the family Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Parulidae (New World warblers).

skovskade

A widespread species of jay, usually crested and with pinkish-brown plumage and a harsh screech (Garrulus glandarius).

skovsnegl

Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. [from early 18th c.]

skovsneppe

A medium-small wading bird, (Scolopax rusticola)

skovtur

An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.

skød

The upper legs of a seated person.

skøde

(legal) A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before a witness; sometimes required for certain legal activities, such as the transfer of certain kinds of property.

skødesløs

Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes. [from 16thc.]

skøge

(obsolete) A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth, especially one given to low conduct.

skøjte

A light boot, fitted with a blade, used for ice skating.

skøjteløber

A person who skates.

skønlitteratur

(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

skønmaler

(usually) One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.

skønshedsfejl

A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.

skønt

Though, even though, in spite of or despite the fact that: introducing a clause that expresses a concession.

skør

Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact; crackly.

skørbug

(uncountable, disease) A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C, leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes; (countable, obsolete) an occurrence of this disease.

skrabe

(metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.

skraber

A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.

skraldemand

A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.

skralder

Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.

skramme

An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.

skrammel

(slang) Anything that is old or of inferior quality.

skråne

(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.

skråning

An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

skranke

A bar or pole that can be lowered to block vehicular access through a controlled location, or raised to allow traffic to pass.

skråstreg

(originally, _, US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.

skravere

To mark or fill with a crosshatch pattern.

skrædder

A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

skrædderske

A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

skræddersy

To build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications.

skræddersyet

(archaic) Accustomed; usual.

skrækkelig

Full of something causing dread, whether

skræl

(usually, uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.

skrælle

(transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.

skræmme

(transitive, informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. [from mid 19th c.]

skræmmende

Causing mild fear.

skræppe

The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.

skred

The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.

skride

(idiomatic, chiefly, as imperative, pejorative, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away.

skridt

The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.

skridtbeskytter

(cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.

skridtbind

(sports) An athletic supporter worn by men and boys to support the genitals during strenuous exercise.

skrift

(colloquial) Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.

skrifte

(religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.

skriftefader

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.

skriftestol

(Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.

skriftligt udsagn

(legal) A signed document wherein an affiant makes a sworn statement.

skrifttype

In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.

skrig

A shout or scream.

skrige

(intransitive) To make a croak sound.

skrin

A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.

skrinlægge

(intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.

skrive

(transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).

skrive bag på

(transitive) To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it.

skrivebord

A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

skrivehæfte

(computing, sometimes, attributive) A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.

skrivemaskine

A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.

skrivepapir

Writing materials, envelopes, office materials.

skriver

Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.

skrivesager

Writing materials, envelopes, office materials.

skrot

(uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.

skrotum

(anatomy) The sac of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in most placental (boreoeutherian) mammals.

skrøbelig

Able to break or be broken.

skrøbelighed

Refinement in taste or discrimination.

skrubbe

To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.

skrue ud

(transitive) To loosen a screw or thing by turning it.

skruebrækker

A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker.

skruenøgle

(British) An adjustable hand tool for tightening and loosening nuts and bolts.

skruestik

(US) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.

skruetrækker

A hand tool or power tool which engages with the head of a screw and allows torque to be applied to turn the screw, thus driving it in or loosening it.

skruetvinge

(US) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.

skrummel

A monstrous person, thing, or act.

skrumpe

(transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.

skrumpelever

(pathology) A chronic disease of the liver caused by damage from toxins (including alcohol), metabolic problems, hepatitis, or nutritional deprivation, characterised by an increase in fibrous tissue and the destruction of liver cells.

skrupelløs

Without scruples; immoral.

Skt.

Abbreviation of Saint.

skub

A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.

skubbe

(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.

skubbe ud

(transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.

skud

The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

skudangreb

(countable) an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon

skudsikker

(of a material) Capable of withstanding a direct shot by a bullet fired from a gun.

skue

To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.

skueplads

(legal) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid, or the district from which a jury comes.

skuespil

(countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.

skuespiller

A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer. [from 16th c.]

skuespillerinde

A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer. [from 16th c.]

skuffe

(transitive) To sadden or displease (someone) by underperforming, or by not delivering something promised or hoped for.

skuffede

Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.

skuffelse

(countable) An example or the act of disappointing: a circumstance in which a positive expectation is not achieved.

skuffende

Causing disappointment.

skuffet

Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.

skule

(intransitive, figurative) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly.

skulle

Must; need to; to be urged to; to be required to; indicates obligation.

skulptere

(transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.

skulptør

A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

skum

A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:

skumgummi

A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:

skummel

Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.

skumre

(intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.

skumring

(uncountable) Nightfall.

skunk

Any of various small mammals, of most genera of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.

skur

A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

skure

The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush, soap and water.

skurk

(informal) a villain, particularly an antagonist in a story.

skurvefugl

A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. [from 11th c.]

skvadderhoved

(derogatory) A foolish or silly person. [from 16th c.]

skvadre

(intransitive, pejorative) To talk rapidly without making much sense.

skvat

(sometimes, derogatory, colloquial) A timid, unassertive or cowardly person.

sky

A meat or fish jelly.

skybrud

A sudden heavy rainstorm.

skyde

(transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.

skyde lyn

(intransitive) To look or stare with anger. [from late 15th c.]

skyde ned

(transitive) To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.

skyde ud

(, usually, _, intransitive) To forcefully project oneself or another occupant from an aircraft (or, rarely, another type of vehicle), typically using an ejection seat or escape capsule.

skydeknap

(countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).

skydeskive

A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.

skydevåben

A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead.

skyet

Covered with or characterised by clouds.

skygge

A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.