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katzenjammer

[kat-suhn-jam-er]

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noun

the discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.

uneasiness; anguish; distress.

uproar; clamor: His speech produced a public katzenjammer.

Origin:
1840–50; < German, equivalent to Katzen (plural of Katze cat) + Jammer discomfort, Old High German jāmar (noun and adj.); compare yammer

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katzenjammer (ˈkætsənˌdʒæmə)

—n
1.	a confused uproar
2.	a hangover

[German, literally: hangover, from Katzen cats + jammer misery, wailing]

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katzenjammer

1849, "a hangover," Amer.Eng. colloquial, from Ger. katzen, comb. form of katze "cat" + jammer "distress, wailing." Hence, "any unpleasant reaction" (1897). Katzenjammer Kids "naughty children" is from title of comic strip first drawn by Rudolph Dirks in 1897 for the "New York Journal."

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