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katzenjammer

[ kat-suhn-jam-er ]

noun

  1. the discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.
  2. uneasiness; anguish; distress.
  3. uproar; clamor:

    His speech produced a public katzenjammer.



katzenjammer

/ ˈkætsənˌdʒæmə /

noun

  1. a confused uproar
  2. a hangover
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of katzenjammer1

From German: “hangover,” literally, “wailing of cats,” equivalent to Katzen (plural of Katze cat ( def ) ) + Jammer “discomfort,” Old High German jāmar (noun and adjective) “misery; sad”; yammer; katzenjammer def 1 was first recorded in 1840–50; and katzenjammer defs 2 and katzenjammer none 3 in 1895–1900
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Word History and Origins

Origin of katzenjammer1

German, literally: hangover, from Katzen cats + jammer misery, wailing
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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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