[1] Numerous decisions by Northern district courts have confirmed that saying terms like hestkuk (literally horsecock) to a police officer is not punishable, as it is common usage (one ruling said: "[hestekuk] is not more than one should tolerate in daily conversation.").
[3] However, a 2022 ruling by the West Finnmark district court in Northern Norway, where a man was fined 42 000 kroners after calling a police officer hestkuk, concluded that Northerners swearing was "a stigmatizing and dated idea – and under no circumstance correct", suggesting a reversal of this trend.
[11] Norwegian grammar allows for compound nouns, and therefore virtually infinite combinations of profanities.
For instance, the terms fitte (cunt) and tryne (face) may be combined to produce fittetryne (cuntface).
Most of these terms have been used on normal TV broadcasts, where profanity has become less taboo in recent years.