Scandiwegian

English

Etymology

Blend of Scandinavian +‎ Norwegian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːdʒən

Adjective

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

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.