The story
Duden defines it plainly as bodily slackness in spring, and German papers run the same explainer every March, blaming the light or the blood pressure and settling nothing. It arrives exactly when everybody expects to feel better.
Frühjahrsmüdigkeit
FRUE-yahrs-mue-dikh-kite[ˈfʁyːjaːɐ̯sˌmyːdɪçkaɪ̯t]
the flat, heavy tiredness that arrives with the first warm weeks of the year
Closest in English: lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness. None of them covers it.
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- Which language is it from?German
- What does it literally say?Spring-weariness
- Where would you hear it?A March afternoon, sun out, eyes closing
- What does it mean?The heavy flatness of the first warm weeks
How it went
Round two, literally, was where most points went.
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