baggböleri

Swedish

Etymology

Compound of baggböla (“[to] illegally log”) +‎ -eri (“verb→noun”). From the sawmill in Baggböle, which from the 1840s to the 1860s was involved in several court cases accused of felling forests owned by the Swedish crown. First attested in 1898.

Noun

baggböleri n

1. illegal logging
   • 1881, Georg Lundström, Från polcirkel till vändkrets, page 83:

     8. Alla fria medborgare hafva en naturlig rätt till tjufskytte och baggböleri.

     8. All free citizens have a natural right to poaching and [illegal] logging.

   • 2016 March 21, Bengt Ek, “Finansinstitut bör inte medverka till skogsskövling”, in Svenska Dagbladet:

     På samma sätt som banker avstår från att investera i bolag med betydande verksamhet i kolkraft vill vi kunna investera i en bred portfölj utan skövling och globalt bagg­böleri.

     In the same way that banks refrain from investing in companies with significant operations in coal power, we want to be able to invest in a broad portfolio without deforestation and global illegal logging.

Related terms

• baggböla (verb)

References

• baggböleri in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)