Noun: hygge
Sample Sentences
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According to this now vast popular literature, the creation of an atmosphere of hygge is aided by gløgg (mulled wine), meatballs and cardamom buns. [2016 November 22, Charlotte Higgins, “The hygge conspiracy”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2018:]
Nouns inflected like hygge
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Danish hygge, Norwegian Nynorsk hygge or Norwegian Bokmål hygge. See: Danish Nouns '
hygge', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
hygge'.