katzenjammer
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katzenjammer¹
- /ˈkætsənˌd͡ʒæmə(ɹ)/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Katzenjammer (“hangover”, literally “the wailing of cats”); a determinative compound formed from Katze (“cat”) + -n- + Jammer (“wailing; lamentation”).
noun katzenjammers · Katzenjammer
- A hangover. Also, I had found my way into the realm of the mind, and I was intellectually intoxicated. (Alas! as I was to learn at a later period, intellectual intoxication too, has its katzenjammer.)
- Jitters; discord; confusion. Tell you the truth, I've had an intimation from the State Department—unofficially, of course—that whenever a soldier of fortune demands a fleet of gunboats in a case of revolutionary katzenjammer, I should cut the cable, give him all the tobacco he wants, and after he's shot take his clothes, if the
- Depression.
Katzenjammer²
noun Katzenjammers
- Alternative letter-case form of katzenjammer He is naked to the waist to show the plump white arms and shoulders and the satiny skin of the voluptuary; one of those men whose heads and whose stomachs are too loyal ever to give them Katzenjammer or remorse.
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title = {katzenjammer},
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