gask
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Swedish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (Archaic and jocular) gasque
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain.
Likely borrowed from Italian casco and Spanish cascarela, cáscara. Originally a term in the cardgame l'Hombre, later incorporated with the game Vira, later incorporated with student slang. First attested in 1734.[1]
Noun[edit]
gask c
- (card games) A bid in l'Hombre. [since 1817]
- (card games) A somewhat high and adventurous bid in Vira. [since 1898]
- A type of (more or less) formal (university) student party. [since 1897]
Declension[edit]
| Declension of gask | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | gask | gasken | gaskar | gaskarna |
| Genitive | gasks | gaskens | gaskars | gaskarnas |
In sense 3:
| Declension of gask | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | gask | gasken | gasker | gaskerna |
| Genitive | gasks | gaskens | gaskers | gaskernas |
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- gask in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)