hangover

hangover
hangover (n.) also hang-over, 1894, "a survival, a thing left over from before," from HANG (Cf. hang) (v.) + OVER (Cf. over). Meaning "after-effect of drinking too much" is first attested 1904, on notion of something left over from the night before.

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