English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
American English; hang + over. First sense was first attested in 1904. Second sense was first attested in 1894.
Pronunciation[edit]
hangover (plural hangovers)
- Illness caused by a previous bout of alcohol drinking.
- I really enjoyed yesterday’s party, but now I have the biggest hangover — I’ll not be doing that again any time soon.
- An unpleasant relic left from prior events.
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Translations[edit]
illness caused by heavy drinking
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: babbelas (af)
- Arabic: خمار (ar) (khumaar) m, خمار السكر (ar) (khumaar al-sukr) m, صداع الخر (ar) (Sudaa` al-khamr) m
- Armenian: խումար (xumar)
- Avar: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: пахмелле (be) (paxmjellje) n
- Bulgarian: махмурлук (bg) (mahmurluk) m
- Catalan: ressaca (ca) f
- Chechen: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 宿醉 (cmn) (sùzuì)
- Czech: kocovina (cs) f
- Danish: tømmermænd (da) c
- Dutch: kater (nl) m
- Esperanto: postebrio (eo)
- Estonian: pohmell (et), pohmelus (et), pohmakas (et), pohm (et)
- Finnish: krapula (fi), kankkunen (fi), pohmelo (fi), kohmelo (fi), darra (fi), koistinen (fi)
- French: gueule de bois (fr) f
- Georgian: ნაბახუსევი (ka) (nabaxusevi), (slang) პახმელია (ka) (paxmelia)
- German: Katzenjammer (de) m, Kater (de) m
- Hebrew: חמרמורת (he)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: másnaposság (hu)
- Icelandic: timburmenn (is) m pl, þynnka (is) f
- Inuktitut: ᐊᖓᔮᕐᓇᖅᑐᖅ ᓯᓕᙴᑎᕚ ᐅᓪᓛᒃ (iu), angajaarnaqtuq silinnguutivaa ullaak (iu)
- Italian: postumi della sbornia m, postumi dell'ubriachezza (it)
- Japanese: 二日酔い (ja) (ふつかよい, futsukayoi)
- Korean: 숙취 (ko) (suk-chwi)
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- Latin: crapula (la)
- Latvian: paģiras (lv)
- Lithuanian: pagirios (lt) f pl
- Macedonian: мамурлак (mk) (mamurlak)
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: үлдэгдэл (mn) (üldegdel)
- Navajo: yoolééł
- Norwegian: fyllesyke m, bakrus (no) m
- Old English: please add this translation if you can
- Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: kac (pl) m
- Portuguese: ressaca (pt) f
- Romanian: mahmureală (ro) f
- Russian: похмелье (ru) (poxmél’je) n
- Scottish Gaelic: ceann-daoraich (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian: mamurluk (sh)
- Slovene: maček (sl) m
- Spanish: resaca (es) f, caña f (Chile), chaqui m (Bolivia), chuchaqui m (Ecuador), cruda f (Mexico), goma f (Central America), guayabo m (Colombia), hachazo m (Chile), hangover (es) m (Puerto Rico), perseguidora f (Peru, dated - current usage: resaca), ratón m (Venezuela)
- Swedish: bakfylla (sv) c, kopparslagare (sv) c, baksmälla (sv) c
- Tibetan: ཆང་ནད (bo) (chang nad)
- Turkish: akşamdan kalmalık (tr)
- Tuvan: чүдей (čüdej)
- Ukrainian: похмілля (uk) (poxmíll'a) n
- Vietnamese: dựng xiên (vi), tồn tại (vi)
- Volapük: posbrietlustad (vo)
- Yiddish: הענגאווער (yi) (hengover), קאַצניאָמער (yi) (kotsenyamer) m
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unpleasant relic left from prior events
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