rappakalja

== Swedish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Finnish rapakalja. Shifts in sense seems to have gone from "beer" (as in Finnish) via "gruel" (a sense not attested in Finnish) to "mess", to current sense. === Noun === rappakalja c (confused) nonsense (talk) (archaic) beer of bad quality ==== Declension ==== ==== References ==== “rappakalja”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “rappakalja”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “rappakalja”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)