Swedish–English dictionary

smilfink

(derogatory) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady.

smilgrop

Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth.

smink

(countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.

smisk

(uncountable) A form of physical punishment in which a beating is applied to the buttocks.

smiska

(transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.

smita

(intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away. [From mid 16th century.]

smita före

To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back.

smitta

(transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.

smittämne

(pathology, immunology) An agent that can cause disease, especially an infectious microorganism, such as a bacterium, virus, protozoon or fungus.

smittande

(of feelings and behaviour) Spreading quickly from one person to another.

smittas

(transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).

smittbärande

(of a person) Having a disease that can be transmitted to another person.

smittbärare

A biological hazard; a source of risk due to some biological factor such as bacteria or human waste.

smittkoppor

(disease) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s, but still exists in laboratories. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.

smittsam

(of a person) Having a disease that can be transmitted to another person.

smocka

A blow with the hand.

smog

A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.

smolk

(literary, or, puristic, otherwise, archaic) A small particle; a speck.

smörblomma

Any of many herbs, of the genus Ranunculus, having yellow flowers; the crowfoot.

smord

Having undergone the process of anointing.

smörgås

Any dish consisting of only one slice of bread, with any topping.

smörig

Made with or tasting of butter.

smörja

(transitive) To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.

smörjmedel

A substance used to reduce friction between objects or surfaces.

smörjning

The application of a substance (lubricant) between moving surfaces in contact in order to reduce friction and minimize heating.

smörsångare

One who croons; a singer, usually male, especially of popular music.

sms

(countable) A text message sent using the short message service.

smuggla

(transitive, intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties

smugglare

One who smuggles things.

smula

(negative polarity) A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.

smulan

(US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.

smulpaj

A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.

smurf

Used after the same thing is said by two people simultaneously.

smuts

(chiefly, US) Soil or earth.

smutsa ner

(transitive) To make (something) dirty.

smutsig

Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.

smutsigt

In a dirty manner.

smutskasta

(transitive) To make hurtful untrue comments about.

smutskastning

The act of making black; a blackening or defamation.

smutstvätt

(metonym) A clothes hamper or other container in which soiled laundry is placed.

smutt

A small mouthful of drink

smutta

(transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.

smycke

Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones.

smyga

(intransitive) To move cautiously by advancing its front end.

smygeri

(uncountable) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.

snabb

Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid. [from 14th c.]

snabbhet

speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid

snabbköp

A chain of such stores.

snabbt

Fast, quickly, swiftly.

snabbtänkt

Quickwitted and alert.

snabel

(anatomy) An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.

snack

(euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.

snacka

To be engaged in informal conversation.

snål

Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.

snåla

(intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.

snålhet

Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.

snåljåp

(by extension) Someone who does not give freely.

snäll

Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious

snälla

(often, with yes) Used as an affirmative to an offer.

snållänning

(obsolete) A person who is wretched or despicable; a wretch.

snäpp

A step; a degree.

snäppa

One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).

snaps

(uncountable) A type of distilled alcoholic beverage (liquor), often with a herbal or fruit flavoring, typically drunk neat as an apéritif or digestif.

snår

A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.

snara

A mental or psychological trap.

snarare

Used to specify a choice or preference; preferably, in preference to. (Now usually followed by than) [from 9th c.]

snarast

Initialism of as soon as possible.

snårig

Covered with or consisting of scrub.

snärja

Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

snarka

(ambitransitive) To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.

snarkning

The act of snoring, and the noise produced.

snårskog

The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest.

snart

Soon; in a little while.

snärta

To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.

snäsa

(transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.

snäsig

Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.

snask

(countable, especially, _, UK, India) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.

snatta

(transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.

snattare

One who pilfers.

snatteri

A theft of property having a value lower than a certain small amount set forth in a statute, and considered to be a less serious class of crime.

snäv

Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.

snava

(transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.

sned

Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.

snedbjälke

(heraldiccharge) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.

snedfitta

(slang) A part of a cigarette that is burning unevenly.

snedruta

(shapes, heraldiccharge) A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles.

snedställd

Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.

snedstreck

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

snedtändning

(slang, drug use) An acute adverse psychological reaction to effects produced under the influence of psychoactive substances, namely hallucinogens.

snedvriden

Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.

snegla

(intransitive) To look or glance sideways.

snickarbänk

A sturdy bench or table at which manual work is done by a carpenter, machinist, etc.

snickarbyxor

Heavy denim pants or trousers, usually with bib and braces, worn especially as work clothing.

snickarglädje

(transitive, idiomatic, uncommon) To decorate or embellish in an ornate or intricate way.

snida

To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.

snideri

The act or craft of producing a carved object.

sniffa

(slang, primarily, UK) To inhale drugs (usually cocaine) through the nose, usually in powder form.

snigel

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

snille

Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.

snillrik

(of a person) Displaying genius or brilliance; inventive.

snip

An infectious disease of horses, mules and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans.

snippa

(childish) The female genitalia.

snirklad

Elaborately ornate; flowery.

snirklig

(informal) Not straight; wavy and irregular.

snitt

The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.

sno

(transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission. [First attested in the late 15th century.]

sno (iväg)

(intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.

snöa

(intransitive, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.

snobb

(informal, derogatory) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. [from 20th c.]

Snobben

Charlie Brown's pet beagle in the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz; often representing doggish soulfulness.

snobbig

Affected or pretentious, sometimes with the implication of displaying an air of excessive fanciness or ostentation; pompous, self-important, snobbish; often displaying a feeling of patronizing self-aggrandizing or arrogant class superiority.

snöblandat regn

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Northeast US) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.

snöboll

A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter.

snöbräda

A board, somewhat like a broad ski, or a very long skateboard with no wheels, used in the sport of snowboarding.

snöby

A light, brief snowfall.

snodd

A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.

snöfall

(uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.

snöflinga

A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.

snöglopp

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Northeast US) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.

snögubbe

A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).

snöhagel

(uncountable) A precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake.

snöhydda

A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow.

snöig

Marked by snow, characterized by snow.

snok

A nonvenomous snake of species Natrix natrix, native to Europe, with a yellow collar.

snoka

(transitive) To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.

snokande

The act of snooping.

snöman

(cryptozoology) An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.

snömos

(slang, US, dated, 1920s) Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.

snooker

A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.

snöoväder

A large snowstorm accompanied by strong winds and greatly reduced visibility caused by blowing snow.

snöpa

(transitive) To remove the testicles of a person or animal.

snopen

Thoroughly confused, puzzled

snöplig

Causing disappointment.

snöplog

A motorized vehicle that is used to push snow off flat surfaces such as roads and parking lots.

snopp

(North America, colloquial) The penis.

snoppstoppa

(vulgar, slang, originally, _, AAVE) To make or attempt to make another's intended goal of romantic relationship or sexual intercourse impossible.

snor

Nasal mucus; snot.

snöra

(ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.

snorbuse

(US, Canada, Philippines, slang) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.

snöre

A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.

snorig

Running or dirtied with mucus.

snorkel

(underwater diving) A hollow tube, held in the mouth, or mounted on and opening into a diving mask, used by swimmers for breathing underwater.

snorkla

To use a snorkel.

snorkråka

(US, Canada, Philippines, slang) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.

snörliv

A corset-like sleeveless overgarment for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves.

snörök

Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.

snorta

(transitive, slang, originally, US) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.

snorunge

(pejorative) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.

snorvalp

(colloquial) A young and cheeky or presumptuous person; often with a connotation of ignorance via inexperience. [from 1670s]

snörvel

The act of snivelling.