dammsugare

Etymology

From damm (“dust”) +‎ suga (“to suck”) +‎ -are (“-er”). Calque of German Staubsauger. Attested since 1906 according to SO.

The pastry sense refers to its appearance and to the supposed practice of the pastry baker collecting crumbs and cutoffs from the day for filling. Attested at least since 1990 according to SO.

Noun

dammsugare c

1. vacuum cleaner

   Hypernym: städmaskin (“cleaning machine”)

   • 1903 June 22, “Ingen mattpiskning [No carpet whipping]”, in Nerikes Allehanda‎:

     Där har nu införts en amerikansk uppfinning, en dammsugare, som man för öfver mattorna och som då genom en slang suger till sig allt damm.

     An American invention has now been introduced there, a vacuum cleaner, which is passed over the carpets and which then sucks up all the dust through a hose.

2. a punsch-roll; a kind of pastry filled with cake crumbs, butter, and cocoa, flavoured with punsch liqueur, covered in marzipan and with ends coated in chocolate

   Synonyms: punschrulle, arraksrulle, trådrulle, (jocular) 150-ohmare

References

• dammsugare in Svensk ordbok (SO)