hanger
n.the feeling of being angry or annoyed because you are hungry. It is a mix of the words 'hungry' and 'angry'.
n.a state of irritability or anger caused by a lack of food. An informal portmanteau of 'hungry' and 'angry'.
“I get terrible hanger if I skip lunch.”
“She apologized for her short temper, explaining that it was just hanger and she needed a snack.”
“While often discussed in a lighthearted context, hanger reflects a genuine physiological response where low blood sugar levels trigger the release of stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline.”
Typically used in informal spoken English to explain sudden irritability.
“Thirty to 40, it claims, wildly, “consisting mostly of standard velvet or plastic hangers”.”
Inherited from Middle English hanger, haunger, hangere, equivalent to hang + -er. Cognate with West Frisian hinger (“hanger”), Dutch hanger (“hanger”), German Hänger (“hanger”), Henker (“hangman”), Danish hænger (“hanger”), Norwegian henger (“hanger”), Swedish hängare (“hanger”).
Blend of hunger + anger.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.