skvallerspegel

Swedish

skvallerspegel

Etymology

skvaller (gossip) + spegel (mirror), used since 1897. In Danish called gadespejl (street mirror).

Noun

skvallerspegel c

  1. a double mirror mounted outside a window, for viewing up and down the street; similar to a rear-view mirror, but mounted on a house; common in small towns with wooden houses (Kalmar, Vadstena)
    • Hjalmar Bergman, 1919, Markurells i Wadköping, chapter 5
      Och där satt hon, till synes bunden av sin vana och sin kära skvallerspegel, som fängslat henne i ett drygt halvsekel.
      And there she sat, apparently spellbound by her habit and her dear mirror outside the window, that had held her captive for more than half a century.

Declension

Declension of skvallerspegel 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative skvallerspegel skvallerspegeln skvallerspeglar skvallerspeglarna
Genitive skvallerspegels skvallerspegelns skvallerspeglars skvallerspeglarnas

Synonyms

References

  1. Espion in P.L. Bergström, Språkmästaren (1915)
  2. Espion in Carl Magnus Ekbohrn, Förklaringar över 100,000 främmande ord och namn m.m. (1936)
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