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katzenjammer
noun
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
The jitters
Bewilderment
Depression
Discord
adjective
raucous
A once popular American comic strip was "The
Katzenjammer
Kids."
Etymology:
German Katzenjammer
("the wailing of cats")
, hangover; a compound formed from Katzen
(plural of Katze)
, cat + jammer, wailing
or
distress.
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