W.O.T.D.

The word of the day is veisalgia, what you're going to feel tomorrow after celebrating St. Patrick's Day by drinking too much green beer today.

Veisalgia:  The unpleasant after-effects after the consumption of alcohol. 

From Norwegian "kveis" meaning "uneasiness after debauchery" and "algia," Greek for "grief or pain".

(There you go, Scholiast.)

Uneasiness after debauchery, huh?  Makes a hangover sound even worse, somehow.

[Image:  Chicago River dyed green.  Or maybe that's beer.  From Wikipedia]

[Definition from Wiktionary]

Comments

[Scholiast]

Thanks, I'll consider putting it in our dictionary... Although the only "kveis" I can find in the dictionary (and I had to look it up, cause I've never heard it before), means "intestinal worm in fish". Well, kind of nauseating in itself ;)