Comments on: What are some slang words for a hangover?

Question: What are some slang words for a hangover?

jon_kill — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:43:33 -0800

Looking for slang words for a hangover.

No matter how obscure. I'll get the ball rolling: katzenjammer.

By: christinetheslp

christinetheslp — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:46:45 -0800

We always called it "divine punishment" or "God hates me" because it would happen on Sunday mornings after a Saturday of drinking.

By: leapfrog

leapfrog — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:52:07 -0800

Brown bottle flu.

By: handee

handee — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:01:22 -0800

Overhang.

Been talking to god on the great white telephone.

Hamster mouth. (Yes, I have heard this one used and you ALL know what it means.)

We used to drink a lot of Boss cider when I was a student, and that was so chemical it gave the worst hangover experiences. We used to say we'd been embossed. But I guess that's not really applicable to many drinks.

By: stormygrey

stormygrey — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:02:08 -0800

Irish flu.

Maybe a little controversial, but my fiancee's parents are straight off the boat Irish, so its what we use.

By: hangashore

hangashore — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:22:01 -0800

"Zacklies."

I.e., you wake up and your mouth tastes 'zackly like your butt (a.k.a. "egg zacklies").

By: 4ster

4ster — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:37:02 -0800

A college friend described his hangovers as "feeling like he had gargled with a dead 'possum."

By: M.C. Lo-Carb!

M.C. Lo-Carb! — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:41:21 -0800

"Crudo" is Mexican slang for a hangover.

"That goes together like menudo and a crudo."

By: Zozo

Zozo — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:46:07 -0800

"An inexplicable headache."

We like irony.

By: The Michael The

The Michael The — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:48:45 -0800

Modern Irish: Ta dha cinn orm.

Literally, "There are two heads on me."

By: TwoWordReview

TwoWordReview — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:53:25 -0800

We usually describe someone with a hangover as "hangin' "or "in ribbons" or simply "in bits", which can be expanded to "Jaysus I'm like lego this mornin' - in bits".

When you're stomach can't take it anymore it's usually "praying to the porcelain god", or "talking to Huey and Ralph" or testing your "upchuck reflexes"

By: randomination

randomination — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:55:31 -0800

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the "technicolour yawn".

Someone I know says "I've been tenderised".

Seconding Irish flu.

By: ob

ob — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:56:20 -0800

Dusty

By: thejanna

thejanna — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:58:04 -0800

According to John Brownlee of The Consumerist, some people in Ireland like to say you must have "gotten a dirty glass"

"no one in Ireland ever gets drunk or hungover: the most that ever happens is that our systems react unfavorably to the dust at the bottom of our twelfth pint of Guinness"

full post here

By: NoMich

NoMich — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:05:44 -0800

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the "technicolour yawn".

But technicolor yawn is barfing, which is only a part of the hangover.

By: davey_darling

davey_darling — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:05:45 -0800

"Hurtin" as in "Man, I'm hurtin' today"

"Never again"

Pretty simplistic, I know.

By: polyglot

polyglot — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:22:34 -0800

"food poisoning" is the usual excuse trotted out in our dept when someone is missing after a weekend bender.

By: RMALCOLM

RMALCOLM — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:25:03 -0800

"Someone slipped me a bad ice cube"

"Suffering the wrath of grapes"

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:25:09 -0800

Tore up.
Fur-tongued.
Shittied.
Squinted.
Retarded.
Beerless.
With the throb.
Needing grease.
Wearing loud shoes.
The morning tremblies.
Dawn damage.

By: TwoWordReview

TwoWordReview — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:26:30 -0800

Further to thejanna's post - "It must've been the dodgy burger" is pretty common too. In it's most basic form it's usually just "I'm dyin'!" or "Jaysus, I'm dying'!" A more colourful turn of phrase would be "I feel like a boiled shite this morning."

By: TwoWordReview

TwoWordReview — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:29:51 -0800

Oh and of course - "I think I've got the DT's" (check out the song 'delirium tremens' by Christy Moore if you can find it (It's on the Live at the Point album which is well worth having in your collection)

By: dieguido

dieguido — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:32:18 -0800

Plung

By: funboytree

funboytree — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:35:15 -0800

self inflicted wounds

By: austinetsu

austinetsu — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:46:35 -0800

"The Hate" is what my crowd has been calling it lately.

For those days after when your stomach is just not right... we call that having "BubbleGuts"

By: 1f2frfbf

1f2frfbf — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:55:05 -0800

"Torn" as in torn up.

By: ASM

ASM — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:59:14 -0800

"F**cked"

By: pracowity

pracowity — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:17:45 -0800

Polish hangover = "kac"

It sounds a lot like "cats" (not "cack") or, not coincidentally, the beginning of "katzenjammer."

In South Africa, you might have a "babbelas."

By: mckenney

mckenney — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:26:45 -0800

"I was overserved last night."

By: Davaal

Davaal — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:50:02 -0800

Assuming you woke up in a strange place with a strange women you dont know....

you can call it the The Memento. so called after the scene in the movie Memento when the main character (Guy Pearce) - who has severe short term memory loss - wakes up in bed next to a beautiful woman (Carrie-Anne Moss) and has no idea how he got there or who she was. it explains that first 5 minutes of panic when you realize you have no idea how your night ended.

saved for very special nights... kinda the opposite of the Coyote Ugly

a word on hang overs... the severity of your hangover iis inversely proportional to the craziness of the night before...

By: Four-Eyed Girl

Four-Eyed Girl — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:53:40 -0800

Faded.

By: leapfrog

leapfrog — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:55:37 -0800

"Red-eyed and bushy-tongued", as opposed to "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed".

By: Vantech

Vantech — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:31:17 -0800

Liquid flu is the politically correct version we use around these parts.

By: ob

ob — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:34:27 -0800

Well, my favorite term for being drunk is Heavily Refreshed. So I suppose you could say that when you're hungover you're suffering from Post Refreshment (Syndrome).

By: chrissyboy

chrissyboy — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:39:14 -0800

'cocktail flu'

By: NoMich

NoMich — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:47:31 -0800

A friend of mine from my Chicago days would always say that he felt like he had an alcohol-induced concussion on those mornings with an exceptionally bad headache.

By: jon_kill

jon_kill — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:07:34 -0800

These are great, thanks!

By: cmfletcher

cmfletcher — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:39:08 -0800

Around work it's become "low blood sugar" from someone using this excuse to call out after a hard night out.

By: FidelDonson

FidelDonson — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:06:13 -0800

In Denmark the hangover is known as having 'tømmermænd' = carpenters.

By: devilsbrigade

devilsbrigade — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:38:42 -0800

We just call it being fucked (as in, "I was so fucked up last night... and I am so fucked today"), because inevitably there's something important that you have to do. The worse the hangover the more important that thing is. And as much as you try to plan, something comes up.

ASM, do you know me? :P

By: Zebtron

Zebtron — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:08:56 -0800

My ex father-in law referred to it as "the high cost of low living"

By: Ugh

Ugh — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:16:43 -0800

My buddies always say "in the hurt locker."

By: rob511

rob511 — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:42:53 -0800

katzenhammered

By: bloo

bloo — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:19:53 -0800

The German word for hangover is "Kater" = "male cat". On a typical sunday you may be "verkatert" which could be translated as being "catted".

Why do we call it male cat, you ask? It derived from the word Katarrh which is basically an old-fashioned expression for an illness.

By: 4ster

4ster — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:04:11 -0800

I always thought a good name for both a hangover and a band would be "Excederin Breakfast."