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hangoverish

adj

Etymology

From hangover + -ish.

  1. inherited from *upér✻ — “above; over”
  2. inherited from *uber✻ — “over”
  3. inherited from *obar✻
  4. inherited from ofer
  5. inherited from over
  6. formed as hangover — “hang + over”
  7. suffixed as hangoverish — “hangover + ish”

Definitions

  1. Hungover, or somewhat hung over.

    • There is no eartly reason why I should dally with her in the margin of this sinister memoir, but let me say (hi, Rita—wherever you are, drunk or hangoverish, Rita, hi!) that she was the most soothing […]
    • Today Thursday, I've been feeling hangoverish, with nothing better to do than to go walking round London in the drizzling rain, and to sit at Heathrow bringing this journal up to date.

  2. Of or pertaining to a hangover.

    • That night when the ice melted in the cooler and the booze got warm, I ditched plans on getting “mizzed,” miserably drunk. It had been a hangoverish but exciting afternoon to begin with, and there wasn't anything left of the weekend.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hangoverish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA