fjortis

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fjortis

Borrowed from Swedish fjortis (“immature teenager”), from fjorton (“fourteen”) (with the suffix -is, from Latin -is), from Old Swedish fiughertān, fiughurtan (“fourteen”), from Old Norse fjugurtán, fjugrtán, of fjórtán (“fourteen”), from Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun (“fourteen”), from both *fedwōr (“four”), from *petwṓr, from *kʷetwṓr of Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”) + and from *tehun (“ten”), from *tehunt, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t (“ten”). Equivalent to fjorten +‎ -is.

fjortis m (definite singular fjortisen, indefinite plural fjortiser, definite plural fjortisene)

(colloquial) a fourteen-year-old
- 2001, Jon Michelet, Den frosne kvinnen:
  den belgiske kureren fikk fjorten [år i fengsel]. Det er så lang tid som det tar å bli fjortis, og en fjortis er nesten voksen, har levd et lite liv
  the Belgian courier received fourteen [years in prison]. It's as long as it takes to be a fourteen-year-old, and a fourteen-year-old is almost an adult, has lived a short life
(colloquial, slang) a (more often female) teenager prone to immature or shallow behavior, a teenybopper
- 1991 July 13, Dagbladet, page 7:
  de tre [intervjuede 17-åringene] forteller at de unngår disko hvor det vanker «fjortiser»
  the three [interviewed 17-year-olds] say that they avoid discos where "fourteen-year-olds" are common
- 1997, Morten Jørgensen, Kongen av København, page 126:
  [han] kom til å dø av ecstasy mens han stirra på en navlebar fjortis
  [he] would die of ecstasy while staring at a bare-bellied teenybopper
- 2004, Frode Øverli, Pondus. Flar firer, page 135:
  trøst deg med at den dagen det blir hipt å være fjortis med briller og kviser vil du bli sett på som en trendsetter
  take comfort in the fact that the day it gets hip to be a teenybopper with glasses and pimples you will be seen as a trendsetter

FWOTD – 28 October 2014

Clipping of fjorton (“fourteen”) +‎ -is.

fjortis c

(colloquial) a (more often female) teenager prone to immature or shallow behavior
- 2001 February 18, Sara Gemzell, “Fjortisuppror”, in Aftonbladet:
  För vuxna är lite dåliga på lyssna på fjortisar när de vill föra fram sina åsikter.
  Because adults are a bit bad at listening to fjortisar when they want to express their opinions.