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Swedish

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Etymology

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From hispa (mental asylum) +‎ -ig (-y), from Tavringer Romani hispa (small house, cottage), probably a borrowing from Slovene jìspa (small house, cottage) or some other Slavic language.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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hispig (comparative hispigare, superlative hispigast)

  1. (colloquial, of a person) experiencing a fit of anxiety or prone to experiencing fits of anxiety, "hysterical"
  2. (colloquial, of a person) scatterbrained, crazy
    Synonym: vimsig

Declension

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Inflection of hispig
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular hispig hispigare hispigast
neuter singular hispigt hispigare hispigast
plural hispiga hispigare hispigast
masculine plural2 hispige hispigare hispigast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 hispige hispigare hispigaste
all hispiga hispigare hispigaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

References

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  • hispig”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
  • Gerd Carling (2005), “hispig”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 82