bajón
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See also: bajon
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From bajo (“low, not high”) + -ón (augmentative suffix).
Noun
bajón m (plural bajones)
Descendants
- → Tagalog: bahón
Etymology 2
From baja (“act or event of going down”) + -ón (augmentative suffix).
Noun
bajón m (plural bajones)
- lull, low, dip, drop (decline)
- blues, slump (lack of spirit)
- estar de bajón ― to be down in the dumps
- Ellipsis of bajón de electricidad (“power outage”).
- (slang, Honduras, El Salvador, Chile) appetite (Desire to eat food or consume drink)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “bajón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
- “bajón” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010
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