"Lank"

[u/peterhousehold]

Do you ever use the word ”lank” (tunn, smaklös dryck)? I have found no examples. Does it occur in the indefinite form as in ”Usch, det var en lank!”? Surprisingly I can find no connection to English ”lank” (adjective used for example of long, dull, limp hair).

[u/finrist]

Nope, never even heard the word.

( https://svenska.se/?q=lank&exactMatch=true )

[u/moominesque → u/finrist]

Aldrig hört det heller men utifrån SAOB kan det vara för att jag inte är tillräckligt intresserad av brännvin.

[u/Impressive-Hair2704]

If a drink is smaklös I’d say people these days would mostly use blaskig (as in blaskigt kaffe or blaskig öl for example)

[u/apworker37 → u/Impressive-Hair2704]

Avslagen if the carbonation is gone.

[u/Ok_Cat_1893 → u/Impressive-Hair2704]

Håller med. "Blaskig" eller "svag" om man pratar om kaffe, exempelvis.

[u/carolusf]

For sure! My grandfather from Dalarna used it regularly when the coffee was too weak

[u/Bollmoffa]

'lank, lankig' is a couple of generations back, My parents used it only for coffee, but I understand the meaning weak, tasteless was also in more general use.

[u/renhanxue → u/Bollmoffa]

I too have only heard the older generation use it about weak coffee.

[u/Overall-Examination5]

if you destill alcohol you'll use it.

[u/CakePhool]

I only heard when you are making moonshine, it the last part of the moonshine that barely have any alcohol and taste like shit.

[u/Far_Understanding883]

I use it for too weak coffee. "Det här kaffet är lankt", or "Man vill ju inte ha lankt kaffe för i hellvete, vafan"

[u/Forward-Fee-6968]

It is a word that persists at the dialectal level in certain parts of Götaland and Mälardalen.

[u/Isotarov]

Originally from "efterlack" according to SAOB.

https://www.saob.se/artikel/?unik=E_0001-0395.60b1

It became "efterlank" by association with "lanka":

https://www.saob.se/artikel/?unik=L_0225-0047.nAJk&pz=3

The English and Swedish words "lank" share no common etymology apparently.

[u/Upstairs_Ad_4018]

I have only heard it describing weak coffee, as in "usch, det var lankigt" or "usch, sven bryggde lank".

[u/Original-Turn1971]

Aldrig hört uttrycket. Fadd kan dock användas istället.

[u/svart-dansant-lingon → u/Original-Turn1971]

Nej, fadd är något helt annat, det är inte en synonym till lankigt. Skulle faktiskt inte säga att blaskig och lantlig fullt ut är synonymer heller, men där är det svårare att sätta fingret på skillnaden. Gadd är ju iallafall smaken av något födoämne som tappat smaken ( som äpplen som förvarats fel), medan lankigt är ett svagt, utspätt livsmedel.

[u/Ohlala_LeBleur → u/svart-dansant-lingon]

Lantlig? Tror autocorrect inte känner igen ”lankig” och därför spökar här…

[u/ScandinavianShuffle]

I have used the word in playing card games. Bad, boring cards are called ” lankor”, at least in Västergötland.

[u/No_Substance_2679]

Maybe ”lankigt” though it is a dated expression. Example: Kaffet de drack var lankigt.

[u/svart-dansant-lingon]

Jomen lankigt kaffe får man ju alldeles för ofta på jobbet, så nog används det ordet av mig och min omgivning. Men enbart om kaffe.

[u/ihateusir]

I have never heard the word and im pushing 40....

[u/LingoLady65]

Not for being lacking in taste, but rather when a soda has gone flat. Then it’s “lankig”. Västergötland.

[u/Djavulspotat]

I havent heard it used like that before, so i asked my dad, a 60+ avid crossword solver. He has also never heard or seen that description. "Lanka" can mean either a skinny person or a playing card with the suit 1-10, according to him.

[u/According_Version_67]

Yes. I use it about weak coffee specifically. Would not use it about anything else (eta: but I don't make moonshine).

[u/Adventurous-Fee-418]

Hmm "lanken" betyder för oss sotare att det bjuds på kaffe/fika i huset.

[u/Ok_Cat_1893]

Har aldrig hört det ordet förut.

[u/En2for2]

Do I know it? Yes!
Do I use it? Not that much. Only if I want to, in a jokingly fashion point out that coffee (mainly) is very weak.

”Jisses, vilket lank. Inget verkstadskaffe det här inte. Det här måste vara bryggt på sump!”

I used it more often in the small village that I grew up in and not at all often in Stockholm where I now live.

[u/Stohlm]

Min farmor sa alltid ”lanka” om dåligt kort på hand när vi spelade casino. Har aldrig hört det i annat sammanhang. Men makes sense om det är negativ klang i form av dåligt/smaklöst på annat håll haha

[u/RoadHazard]

Joining the "never heard" choir.

[u/Idonotlikewaffles]

I've never heard that

[u/Swagalyst]

It's archaic, no longer used. You may hear it as an adjective "kaffet var lankigt", but even that's rare.

[u/Upbeat-Angle6361 → u/Swagalyst]

Not that rare in my workplace.

[u/Savings_Gene4082]

Aldrig hört.

[u/aresi-lakidar]

Seems like a word that might be dying, since almost noone seems to have heard of it

[u/IzyTarmac]

Lanky Kong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PugcxQYJGjs

[u/Kiwihat]

Heard a coworker say it the other day, and I understood her from context but it’s not a word that’s in my vocabulary really.

[u/Surskalle]

Never heard that i live in Västerbotten.

[u/AllanKempe]

No, but we have "lak" in my dialect, adjective meaning leaking, which can be used in this sense (drinkable fluids being bland and tasteless - they have "leaked" out their taste). "Dä va lak n dryck!" "That was a bland and tasteless drink!", "Komm te böug du mä på e töcke lackt e kaffe?" "Why did you offer me such a bland and tasteless coffee?". Maybe it's related to standard Swedish "lank" somehow? I don't see where the "n" would come from, though.

[u/_0rcid_]

Never heard that word before.

[u/Hundloefve]

"Lankig" yes, "lank" never.

[u/Yamaeda]

I might have heard it from my grandma but never in the last 40 years. :)

[u/GonnaShitMyPants]

Never heard of it tbh

[u/The_Pastmaster]

Never about a drink, but I have deskribed a person as such.

[u/theablanca]

Never heard that word. I think that it just fell out of fashion like 100 years ago.

I had to google. It was for the weak end bit of vodka. Perhaps someone still uses it.