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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈxon/
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: ba‧jón
Etymology 1
From bajo (“low, not high”) + -ón (augmentative suffix).
Noun
bajón m (plural bajones)
- bassoon
- bassoonist
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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)
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