Arkistot kuukauden mukaan: joulukuu 2015

nuuska

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MEANING:

Noun: snuff (tobacco).

DERIVED FROM:

Nuuska comes from Swedish snus ‎(“snuff tobacco”)

EXTRA CREDIT:

The sale of snus is illegal in the European Union since 1992 but, due to special exemptions, it is still manufactured and consumed primarily in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. (From Wikipedia.)

Also, there is an idiomatic use of nuuska as illustrated below:

Together with the adverb tuusan (”totally” or ”completely”) as fortifier used in two expressions:

olla tuusan nuuskana

to be totally wrecked
mennä tuusan nuuskaksi

to become totally wrecked

kuurankukkia

kuurankukkia

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MEANING:

Noun: frost flowers.

DERIVED FROM:

Kuurankukkia comes from kuura (frost created by deposition of water vapor into solid ice, when the dew point is below 0 °C, the surface temperature is less than the dew point, and the air temperature is over the dew point) + kukkia (”flowers”).

 

ähky

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MEANING:

Noun: (colloquial) swell (the state of being swollen due to overeating);  colic (acute stomach pain, especially one connected with overeating).

DERIVED FROM:

Ähky comes from ähkiä, a verb that means ”to grunt” or ”to groan” continuously from physical effort.

EXTRA CREDIT:

A lot of people complain of this after the holidays.

kuivakakku

kuivakakku

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MEANING:

Noun:  A type of non-layered dry cake, often but not necessarily a bundt cake.

DERIVED FROM:

Kuivakakku comes from kuiva ‎(“dry”) +‎ kakku ‎(“cake”)

EXTRA CREDIT:

In Finnish, cakes are usually named according to their ingredients, not their shape. The term kuivakakku however refers to the texture of the cake, and such cakes are often baked in a bundt pan (which has given the English name to the bundt cake), but also a straight mould may be used. A kuivakakku may also be called maustekakku, tiikerikakku, sokerikakku, sitruunakakku, and even hiekkakakku depending on its taste or appearance.