Advent

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Boxing Day

batch (en sats bakat bröd) 

bake, baking

rear (buttocks, behind= om en  människa)

hind, rump

ribbon

hoop, circular band of wood or metal for binding staves or barrels, the work made by a cooper

needle, -s

spread

broth, clear soup, stock, gravy

chocolate  (varm ~= hot ~ )

chocolate box

chocolate bar

chocolate sauce

fire

poker

electric candlestick

family reunion / celebration

family dinner

Ferdinand (the bull sniffing the flowers in the cartoon)

banquet

fig

dressed up

pork

pork chop

foil

frost

stewed fruit

Our Saviour

rejoice

birth

birth, delivery

ancestors

overeat one self

garnish/ decoration/ topping

jelly /See jam and preserves

generous

happy, glad

glazed paper

glaze

glitter / lustre

scoff

joy (happiness)

mulled wine

kindness

sweets (Br) /candy (AE)

Merry Christmas
(a greeting)                    wish sb a ~

fir, fir-tree, spruce

~-needle, -s, needle, -s

gratin

fir, spruce /Christmas tree /compare 'pine' = tall

raw spiced salmon

pig / pork

pigs' trotters

toffee

porridge / oatmeal = havregröt

gift/ present

festival/ feast / holiday

acquisitiveness

straw / NB. straw = sugrör

muffler / NB. also muffler = ljuddämpare

handicraft

hazelnut

honest

home-made food / home-cooked

cloudberry

greetings

yew (tree), a kind of fir, a fir-tree

ginger

purchase

pickled

ice chocolate

hunting, hunt (also: a chase)

"Jansson´s temptation" / a gratin type dish of herring, onion & sliced potato

Christmas, Xmas, Yule, Yuletide

Christmas Eve

Christmas goat

Christmas dinnertable/ Xmas buffet

Christmas-Eve service at church

Christmas Day

Christmastree / Christmas tree

Christmas tree lights/ illumination

Christmas-tree stand

tinsel

children's party

Christmas greeting

Christmas shopping

Christmas hare/Christmas jackrabbit

Christmas cactus

Christmas gift

Christmas wrapping paper

Christmas sausage

Christmas corn sheaf, -ves

candle

Christmas fair

This looks similar to Root beer, but sure isn't..!  Christmas shandy...a kind of a soda common in Sweden

Christmas words

Sw. old-fashioned early church service on Christmas Day

Christmas decorations

Christmas custom

Christmas ham

Christmas window display

illuminate star

Christmas carol

Santa Claus

Christmas brew

holly (holly and mistletoe are evergreens)

turkey / NB. Turkey (=the country)

Donald Duck

cinnamon

coat

taffy /toffee /toffy /colloq. flattery

 cup, mått, sked/skedar storlek etc

sausage, wiener, frank, hot dog, baloney, links(=prinskorv)

crib

spring water (unprocessed, but may be carbonated)

meatballs

salmon  (smoked= rökt)

loaf of bread, bread loaf

light, daylight

candle

candlestick / Candlestick Park, S.F., CA (once the major sports stadium)

"Lucia cat" / saffron bun (looks like the figure 8) to go with a cup of coffee

stockfish / luthefish

longfilm; feature movie

longpants / long-johns

almond

marzipan

midwinter

mistletoe

ivy (you often decorate with ivy, holly & mistletoe in the Anglo-Saxon countries)

Mickey Mouse

noodles

nut cracker

nuts / Don't go nuts or bananas or you'll lose your mind...

wrapping paper (you wrap something up)

parcel / package= smaller parcel

paperknife

gingerbread biscuits/cookies

Pilsner beer, lager, medium strong beer

au gratin, gratin

presents/gifts

links, small sausage / compare wieners...

shaver 
-You shave your beard off with this thing!

safety razor, razor   
-You shave your beard off with this thing!

recipe, for cooking (also=prescription, specification for medicine to be used) 
 NB. receipt= kvitto

disabled 
wiped out, stone drunk?

complain about 
make a complaint about goods or an item

reindeer (the animal= djuret)
deer= hjort, hjortdjur men dock icke rådjur! rein= töm, seldon (som man kör häst/djur  med)

clean, "spick & span"= neat & clean

reindeer (OBS! utan "s")

ribs / spare ribs, beef ribs

white frost,

rhyme

rice pudding

mashed turnips / turnip & potato mash

raisin

red cabbage

smoked

smoked salmon

saffron

lettuce

mustard

herring; pickled herring = inlagd sill

chimney

gravy

beard

wrap up

sleigh

relatives / relation

cracker

odds and ends

small-game hunting

butter  (breda på smör e.d.= spread)

puff pastry

sell like hot cakes

shot / "snaps" / dram / schnaps

candy (AE), sweets (Br)

snow

snowflake

string

sofa / couch / TV couch / NB. couch potato = TV-idiot

stocking / sock / sock is shorter

study

preparation, -s

sauce (vanilla, mint etc), gravy= köttsås

sweets  (även 'candy' om godsaker, snask)

Hilarymas Day

brownie / puck / Santa / Santa Claus / Father Christmas

sparkler

Father Christmas mask / Santa Claus facemask

Christmas brownie, Christmas gnome

dry  (torka bort/undan= wipe)

TV, television /telly/tube

light (light a candle, light a match etc)

set the house on fire

turn on the light

match, matchbox

rein  [jfr 'rain'= regn]  -See reindeer

mitten

reindeer moss

malt loaf, malt bread

whisky, whiskey, Bourbon (Canadian)

beer; lager; ale; stout; brew

wish       (Jämför svenska 'önska' & 'begära' med engelskans 'request', 'desire'  &  'demand')

to wish for...
(... a dream come true?)