feeling baluku
- idiom
- US
:
estar agotado
- He's feeling baluku after helping his friends move heavy furniture all day.
Examples
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She came home late from work, feeling baluku and ready for bed.
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After running the marathon, I was feeling baluku and just wanted to lie down.
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I am feeling baluku.
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After the marathon, I was feeling baluku.
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After running the marathon, I was feeling baluku and just wanted to lie down.
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He's feeling baluku after helping his friends move heavy furniture all day.
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She came home late from work, feeling baluku and ready for bed.
Synonyms
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1.0
Needing rest or sleep because you have little energy
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2.9
Feeling very tired and having no energy
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4.1
Feeling very tired and having no energy
Very tired after a lot of activity or a long day
Very tired after hard physical activity
To be very tired and weak after hard effort
Feeling worn out and easily upset after stress
Antonyms
How Exhausted
Surface Forms
Morphology
feeling + baluku
The second constituent 'baluku' is not an English word and has no dictionary meaning or recognizable morphological parts, so the overall meaning cannot be compositionally derived from 'feeling' + 'baluku'. Because comprehension depends on knowing the idiosyncratic/lexicalized element 'baluku' (likely slang or a borrow), a B1 learner who only knows the literal constituents would not be able to infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The expression feeling baluku may come from an old word baluku for a heavy bundle that people carried. After carrying a baluku you would feel limp and very tired, so saying 'feeling baluku' came to mean 'very exhausted'.