 Similarly, the Norwegian "radbrekke" can be applied to art and language, and refers to use which is seen as despoiling tradition and courtesy, with connotations of willful ignorance or malice.In Swedish, "rådbråka" can be used in the same sense as the English idiom "rack one's brain" or, as in German, to mangle language.The word , meaning a debauched or lecherous person, is French, and its original meaning was "broken on the wheel."