Scandiwegian

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of Scandinavian +‎ Norwegian

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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Scandiwegian (comparative more Scandiwegian, superlative most Scandiwegian)

  1. (derogatory) Belonging or relating to a style of interior furnishings that is middlebrow, bland, and modern.
    • 2002, Terrell Dixon, City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature, →ISBN, page 279:
      They bought a cheap bed, and a ten-foot 1960s Scandiwegian sofa; they bought a small red Quasar Tv, with its remote in the form of an identical miniature red TV.
    • 2008, Waitrose Food Illustrated, page 86:
      Architects and designers used to speak, not always respectfully, of a style called Scandiwegian. The term was coined to describe that middlebrow, does-you-good, polite modernism professed by the enlightened Nordic countries.
    • 2008, Steve Shipside, Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth, →ISBN, page 25:
      Think about how many people you know who own a top of the range shiny Scandiwegian fridge which opens to reveal a curling sandwich, a dead tomato and some curdling milk.
    • 2010, Marshall Moore, An Ideal for Living, →ISBN, page 27:
      No matter what he tried, the results looked like he'd bought the contents of his home in a single trip to a Scandiwegian interior store: sort of a cross between an airport departure lounge and an upscale psych hospital.
  2. (informal, humorous) Vaguely Scandinavian or Nordic.
    • 2011, Serena Mackesy, The Temp, →ISBN:
      Jomo talks with the conglomerate accent of one much practised in addressing an international audience: basically English, with a bit of Scandiwegian, a bit of mid-Atlantic, some East European gutturals and a touch of Australasian.
    • 2011, Simon Schama, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, →ISBN:
      In the Sixties, Reuben Mattus created the fake Scandiwegian brand of HäagenDazs, with its meaninglessly hoveringumlaut, to comfort a country still crying over its murdered president.
    • 2013, Richard James Bentley, Greenbeard, →ISBN:
      Many years ago, an old Norse berserker, told me a stirring tale, a real tear-jerker, about how he'd never been a shirker, when he was a Scandiwegian postal-worker.
    • 2014, Michael Cox, Fitter, Faster, Funnier Football, →ISBN, page 10:
      Even though they eventually gave up booting around the decapitated heads of Scandiwegian noblemen, many of these old soccer games continued to be extremely violent.

Noun

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Scandiwegian (plural Scandiwegians)

  1. (informal, humorous) A person who is Scandinavian or of Nordic descent.
    • 2010, Stephen Fry, The Stars' Tennis Balls, →ISBN, page 184:
      Another bloody Scandiwegian by the look of the blue eyes and flaxen hair.
    • 2011, Roger Lewis, What Am I Still Doing Here?: My Life as Me, →ISBN:
      The Scandiwegians present applauded heartily, Lutherans lapped it up, and there was obviously a following for fullthroated Russell Watson, if the middleaged bags in Size 20 Boden frocks were any clue.
    • 2016, Mike Bodnar, Against the Current, →ISBN:
      The other thing we found is that this part of the island is, for some reason, a firm favourite with Germans and Scandiwegians.