tungrodd

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

tung + rodd (past participle of ro)

Adjective

tungrodd (neuter singular tungrodd, definite singular and plural tungrodde)

  1. (said of a rowing-boat) hard to row; difficult to manoeuvre
  2. (by extension, of an institution or a bureaucracy) difficult to handle; bureaucratic

References

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