månsing

månsing m (definite singular månsingen, indefinite plural månsingar, definite plural månsingane)

1. a kind of jargon or a secret language used in Scandinavia in 19-20 centuries

From a Månsing verb månsa (“to speak cant”).

• IPA^(key): /²mɔnsɪŋ/

månsing c

1. Any of these two cants or secret languages, who share some common vocabulary:
   1. Older Månsing, a cant or secret language formerly used by peddlers (knallar) especially in Västergötland.
   2. Younger Månsing, a sociolect or cant in common use during the 20th century by certain social groups and the underworld in and around Stockholm.

• knoparmoj

• månsing in Svensk ordbok (SO)