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English
Etymology
From jam + -er.
Noun
Jammer (plural Jammers)
- A player of the massively multiplayer online game Animal Jam (now either the app so named, formerly Animal Jam – Play Wild!, or the desktop game renamed Animal Jam Classic).
- Synonym: Animal Jammer
2014, Katherine Noll, “Welcome to Animal Jam!”, in Animal Jam: Official Insider’s Guide, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 5:So come meet over 16 million Animal Jam players, or Jammers. Liza appears throughout this book to share her advice and tips with all Jammers.
2014 September 10, Shilpa Chakravorty, “Animal Jam Codes 2014: Earn Gems & a Diamond All At Once With Jammer Codes!”, in BREATHEcast, archived from the original on 3 June 2025:
2018 summer, “DCT Media launch This is Animal Jam magazine”, in Total Licensing, Wadhurst, East Sussex, →OCLC, page 131, column 1:This Is Animal Jam, which has recently hit magazine racks across the country, is filled with insider tips, a Jammer name generator, games and puzzles and fun facts about the natural world.
2022 September 30, Miranda Wollen, “Are You There, God? It’s Me, iluvcupcakes29545.”, in Yale Daily News, volume CXLV, number 2, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B4, columns 2 and 5:Only as an actual adult did I realize how bizarre one particular user-created facet of the game was: an obsession with “adopting” other Jammers, or being “adopted” oneself. It’s a little disconcerting to ponder how much of my happy online childhood was spent hanging out virtually with people who were old enough to own Hondas and go on PornHub on purpose (and definitely people old enough to be active on Reddit), but I loved being a Jammer.
German
Etymology 1
From Middle High German jāmer, from Old High German jāmar, from Proto-West Germanic *jāmar, from Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz. Cognates include Dutch jammer and English yammer.
Pronunciation
Noun
Jammer m (strong, genitive Jammers, no plural)
- misery
Declension
Etymology 2
Unadapted borrowing from English jammer.
Pronunciation
Noun
Jammer m (strong, genitive Jammers, plural Jammer)
- jammer (device used to jam radio reception)
- Synonym: Störsender
2011 August 12, J.D. Robb, In den Armen der Nacht: Roman (Eve Dallas), Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag, →ISBN:»Und ich werde morgen mit ein paar Leuten aus der Forschungs- und Entwicklungsabteilung sprechen. Vielleicht fällt ja einem von ihnen noch was zu den Jammern ein.«- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2016 May 30, Anna Kaiser, Auf Schritt und Tritt – die elektronische Aufenthaltsüberwachung: Entwicklung, Rechtsgrundlagen, Verfassungsmäßigkeit, Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 88:Auch andere Technik kann das GPS-Signal stören. Störsender, sogenannte GPS-Jammer, sind im Internet frei verkäuflich, auch wenn ihre Benutzung verboten ist. Diese Jammer können das GPS-Signal nicht nur vollständig stören, sondern es auch verfälschen, sodass es manipulierbar wird.610- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Further reading
- “Jammer” in Duden online
- “Jammer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache