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katzenjammer
[ kat-suhn-jam-er ]
noun
- the discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.
- uneasiness; anguish; distress.
- uproar; clamor:
His speech produced a public katzenjammer.
katzenjammer
/ ˈkætsənˌdʒæmə /
noun
- a confused uproar
- a hangover
Word History and Origins
Origin of katzenjammer1
Word History and Origins
Origin of katzenjammer1
Example Sentences
One only need look at you, Moritz!——I don't know what a katzenjammer's like.
Still, I continued as of old, and thought nothing of it except as the regular katzenjammer—to be expected.
In an orchestra of eighty men there is inevitably at least one man with a sore thumb, or bad kidneys, or a brutal wife, or katzenjammer—and one is enough.
Should he find a man suffering with katzenjammer he would pronounce him a "suspect."
An attack of katzenjammer—such as is scarcely ever spared worldly people of forty—threw a sobering shadow upon this event.
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