I CRY I MOAN MY WORLD HAS NO RELIEF

MY ANGOR PLAGUES ME, EVEN IN MY SLEEP

Rougarrou

angor

PRONUNCIATION:
(ANG-guhr) http://wordsmith.org/words/angor.mp3

MEANING:  noun: Extreme anguish or mental distress.

ETYMOLOGY:  If you’ve ever been so angry, or so anguished, that you felt choked you’ve personally experienced the origin of this term. It comes from Latin angor (strangling, suffocation, mental distress), from angere (to squeeze). Ultimately from the Indo-European root angh- (tight, suffocating, painful), which also gave us anger, anguish, anxious, angst, angina, and hangnail. Earliest documented use: 1440.

SOURCE: A.Word.A.Day – with Anu Garg