Hangover

I was just wondering on the origin of the term "Hangover" and came across the following...

Posted by Frankie on May 10, 2000

"Hangover" --slang, describing the action of dangling over the commode (toilet bowl) the next morning . Simply put, hanging over the toilet to vomit the next morning.

As Richard Roundtree stated on 1/03/00 in
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"Verily, methinks the wench indeed hath quaffed of our finest ale; how apple-cheeked and lusty she doth appear!.....'til following morn when she hungeth over mine commode to rid herself of thine iniquities. (alright, I made up the last part.)

But wondered (purely speculatively) if the term had anything to do with the habit of allowing prisoners drinks in all hostelries on the way to Tyburn to be Hanged...?

Anyone know the true origin

It's doubtful. I looked it up and it was first seen in 1894 in the sense of something left over or an after-effect. It was first in the sense of the after-effect of alcohol sometime later in 1904. I'm guessing that if its origin was the one you suggest it would have been a term used earlier.

One source says it was used on 1912 to describe the morning after a drinking bout. This puts the date a few years earlier:

HANGOVER -- n. 1904. The unpleasant after-effects of drinking too much alcohol. Originally U.S., apparently a development of an earlier usage, "something or someone 'left over' from before." From "20th Century Words: The Story of New Words in English Over the Last 100 Years by John Ayto (Oxford University Press, New York, 1999).