scandiwegian

Belonging or relating to a style of interior furnishings that is middlebrow, bland, and modern.

They bought a cheap bed, and a ten-foot 1960s Scandiwegian sofa; they bought a small red Quasar Tv, with its remote in the form of an identical miniature red TV.

Architects and designers used to speak, not always respectfully, of a style called Scandiwegian. The term was coined to describe that middlebrow, does-you-good, polite modernism professed by the enlightened Nordic countries.

Vaguely Scandinavian or Nordic.

Jomo talks with the conglomerate accent of one much practised in addressing an international audience: basically English, with a bit of Scandiwegian, a bit of mid-Atlantic, some East European gutturals and a touch of Australasian.

In the Sixties, Reuben Mattus created the fake Scandiwegian brand of HäagenDazs, with its meaninglessly hoveringumlaut, to comfort a country still crying over its murdered president.

A person who is Scandinavian or of Nordic descent.

Another bloody Scandiwegian by the look of the blue eyes and flaxen hair.

The Scandiwegians present applauded heartily, Lutherans lapped it up, and there was obviously a following for fullthroated Russell Watson, if the middleaged bags in Size 20 Boden frocks were any clue.