timburmaður

Etymology
From. The sense ‘hangover’ is a. The oldest attestation of timburmenn in the sense "hangover" in the Orðabók Háskólans is from an issue of Fjallkonan from 1891 which goes as follows:


 * "is"

- Margar tegundir kaffibrauðs ... fínasta Scotch Whisky, hið eina í bænum sem enginn fær af hina leiðu timbrmenn.

The literal meaning of ‘carpenter’, however, is far older.

Noun

 * 1)  a hangover
 * 2)  carpenter, woodworker
 * 1)  carpenter, woodworker