Katzenjammer

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.4 Adjective

English

Etymology

German Katzenjammer, from katzen ‘cats’ + jammer ‘wailing or distress’.

Pronunciation

IPA: /'kætsənʤæmə/

Noun

katzenjammer

1. a hangover

   • 1936: In those days a still-birth brought as high as ten dollars and after riding the shoot-the-chutes we always left a little stale beer for the morning because the finest thing in the world for Katzenjammer is a glass of stale beer. — Henry Miller, Black Spring

2. the jitters

Adjective

katzenjammer

1. raucous
   • A once popular American comic strip was "The Katzenjammer Kids."