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Meaning of fjortis | Babel Free

Noun masculine
ˈfjʊʈɪs

Definitions

  1. a fourteen-year-old
    colloquial, masculine
  2. a (more often female) teenager prone to immature or shallow behavior, a teenybopper
    colloquial, masculine, slang

Examples

“den belgiske kureren fikk fjorten [år i fengsel]. Det er så lang tid som det tar å bli fjortis, og en fjortis er nesten voksen, har levd et lite liv”

the Belgian courier received fourteen [years in prison]. It's as long as it takes to be a fourteen-year-old, and a fourteen-year-old is almost an adult, has lived a short life

“de tre [intervjuede 17-åringene] forteller at de unngår disko hvor det vanker «fjortiser»”

the three [interviewed 17-year-olds] say that they avoid discos where "fourteen-year-olds" are common

“[han] kom til å dø av ecstasy mens han stirra på en navlebar fjortis”

[he] would die of ecstasy while staring at a bare-bellied teenybopper

“trøst deg med at den dagen det blir hipt å være fjortis med briller og kviser vil du bli sett på som en trendsetter”

take comfort in the fact that the day it gets hip to be a teenybopper with glasses and pimples you will be seen as a trendsetter

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