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Katzenjammer
Definitions
- 1 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.)"
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of katzenjammer. alt-of
"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."
- 3 loud confused noise from many sources wordnet
- 4 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 they fit me, for part payment of my salary."
- 5 disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) wordnet
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- 6 Depression.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Katzenjammer (“hangover”, literally “the wailing of cats”); a determinative compound formed from Katze (“cat”) + -n- + Jammer (“wailing; lamentation”).
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