Cool Compounds: Part 3
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
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Happy New Year! Or is it so happy right now? Quite possibly, you’re home with one of these:
宿酔 (shukusui: hangover)
And how would I know that you happen to be at home with your hangover? Well, if you’re feeling sick, it’s likely that you’ll want to stay home. But beyond that, the “ingredients” in 宿酔 more or less mandate that you be at home:
宿酔 (shukusui: hangover) home + to become intoxicated
Actually, it would seem from the breakdown (the kanji kind, not the bodily sort) as if you had gotten drunk at home, too. But I’ll leave such matters to your discretion. You could probably succeed in getting drunk in any number of locales.
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