hangovern.

1894 Outing 24 67/2 Then there are a few ‘hang-overs’ who have tried before, and two or three green candidates.

1920 C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 153 A hangover of summer song.

1922 H. Crane Let. 23 June (1965) 77 Since I have been writing ads a certain amount of hangover work to be done evenings.

1930 L. Denny Amer. conquers Brit. 9 That easily inspired hatred of Germany remained as a hang-over in America long after it had been thrown over by the British.

1939 C. Day Lewis Child of Misfortune 136 At the beginning of his second University year, he was still suffering a little from the hang-over of public-school education.

1941 Ann. Reg. 1940 232 Owing to shortage of labour..as much as any hang-over from the Civil War, the..harvests were all unsatisfactory.

1958 Economist 20 Dec. 1054/2 There has been a slight move away from the previous invariable association of every increase in unemployment with a mental picture of lean and hungry men, in hangover from the grim thirties.

1959 Times Rev. Industry Dec. 54/3 Only just recovered from the ghastly hangover of that [buying] spree.

1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Feb. 87/2 The bitter taste of the humanitarian hangover.

1973 Daily Tel. 19 Feb. 6/4 The oversized dormitories..are hang-overs from the old lunatic asylums.

1904 ‘G. Wurdz’ Foolish Dict. Brain,..usually occupied by the Intellect Bros.,—Thoughts and Ideas—as an Intelligence Office, but sometimes sub-let to Jag, Hang-Over & Co.

1912 W. Irwin Red Button 93 This was the first time in his life that Tommy North had ever admitted a ‘hangover’.

1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night viii. 161 ‘How's Miss Cattermole?’ ‘Bad hang-over. As you might expect.’

1942 New Statesman 11 July 26/1 But the use of myths has a similar effect to the use of alcohol: an inevitable hang-over follows the original elation.

1957 Listener 18 July 105/2 Its [sc. coffee's] ability to quicken the spirits, and, above all, to remove the vestiges of those severe hang-overs which afflicted our hard-drinking fore~fathers.

1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 220 It was the only good writing I ever did directly from a drug, even if I paid for it with a hangover beyond measure.

1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed ix. 59 Her eyes were walled in panic, flaming with hangover pain.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 402/1 Hang-over, the delay in restoration of speech-operated switches, as in the Vodas, to ensure the non-clipping of weak final consonants of words.

1943 Gloss. Terms Telecommun. (B.S.I.) 12 Hangover time, of an echo-suppressor, the interval of time that elapses between the instant when the operating signal ceases to be applied at the input terminals of the echo-suppressor and the instant when the suppression loss is reduced to 6 db.

1961 G. A. Briggs A to Z in Audio 95 A perfect loudspeaker would cease to vibrate immediately any applied signal is cut off. Failure to do so is mainly due to resonance, and the unwanted output is sometimes referred to by the unpleasant word hangover. Its effect is to colour the reproduction and spoil the transient response. The worst offender is often the cabinet.

1967 W. E. Pannett Dict. Radio & Television 125 Hangover, lack of ‘attack’ and extended decay in sound reproduction. It is most apparent with transients and is usually due to a resonance or insufficient damping in the system.

1936 ‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fools viii. 62 I felt a bit hang-overish, but that was nothing new.