främmän

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse framandi, derived from fram (whence framm); compare frammlänning.

Adjective

främmän n

  1. foreign
    1. of visits by people who do not belong to the house; used both in good and bad sense
      Kärt främmän
      a welcome visit
      Bäst ’n int visst olä å, fick’n främmän
      When he least expected, he had a visit, for example, from an assailant, debt collector or other unpleasant person
    2. of animals or vermin
      Han fikk främmän ti åkrom
      The creatures came into his field
      Han hav främmän ti kläe
      he has vermin in his clothes
      Han hav främmän ti väggspryngjän
      he has bed bugs in the cracks on the wall
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