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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

/ 藞办忙迟蝉蓹苍藢诲萧忙尘蓹 /

noun

  1. a confused uproar
  2. a hangover
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of katzenjammer1

From German: 鈥渉angover,鈥 literally, 鈥渨ailing of cats,鈥 equivalent to Katzen (plural of Katze cat ( def ) ) + Jammer 鈥渄颈蝉肠辞尘蹿辞谤迟,鈥 Old High German 箩腻尘补谤 (noun and adjective) 鈥渕isery; sad鈥; yammer; katzenjammer def 1 was first recorded in 1840鈥50; and katzenjammer defs 2 and katzenjammer none 3 in 1895鈥1900
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of katzenjammer1

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

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One only need look at you, Moritz!鈥斺擨 don't know what a katzenjammer's like.

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Still, I continued as of old, and thought nothing of it except as the regular katzenjammer鈥攖o be expected.

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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鈥攁nd one is enough.

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Should he find a man suffering with katzenjammer he would pronounce him a "suspect."

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An attack of katzenjammer鈥攕uch as is scarcely ever spared worldly people of forty鈥攖hrew a sobering shadow upon this event.

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