English Explanatory Dictionary

Rövarspråket

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A type of wordplay that originated in Sweden in which the consonants of words are doubled, with the letter o inserted between them.

Word forms

Rövarspråket

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish rövarspråket (“the language of robbers”), from rövare (“robber”) + språket (“the language”).

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