De satt vrantne over sine krus, uvillige til å innlate seg i en samtale, snakket litt om utsiktene for fisket, alt ganske likegyldig, for ingen av dem kunne fortelle noen annen hva denne ikke forut visste.
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They sat sullenly over their mugs, unwilling to engage in conversation, chatting a little about the prospects for the fishing, all quite indifferently, for none of them could tell anyone else what the other did not already know.
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markvanroode 588
3 weeks, 1 day ago
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vrantne = sullen, surly, ill-tempered, morose. Thanks, David.
by markvanroode 2 weeks, 5 days agoI wasn't sure about "vrantne" until I found examples in NAOB, det Norske Akademis OrdBok - https://naob.no/ordbok/vranten
by DavidKenstad 2 weeks, 5 days agowhere they even quote Ibsen. Today the word, usually "vranten", might be considered literary or regional. Synonyms - gretten, sur og vrangvillig.