Katzenjammer

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English

Noun

Katzenjammer (plural Katzenjammers)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of katzenjammer
    • 1871, John Hay, Castilian Days‎:
      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.

German

Etymology

Katze (“cat”) +‎ -n- +‎ Jammer (“wailing; lamentation”). According to one source, the “hangover” sense derives from earlier Kotzen-Jammer (literally “puke-misery”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkatsənjamɐ/
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Noun

Katzenjammer m (strong, genitive Katzenjammers, no plural)

  1. dejection, frustration, depression
  2. (dated) hangover
    Synonym: Kater
    • 1865, Die Plauderstube: eine Sonntagsausgabe zur Erheiterung für Stadt und Land, page 96:
      Einer der wunderbarsten Zustände des Menschen, ein Phänomen für Physiologie und Pathologie, ein Räthsel für den Wein- und Naturforscher, ist der Katzenjammer, auch Kater genannt. Keine Sprache ist reich genug, ihn zu beschreiben, man muß ihn empfunden haben, um ihn unbeschreiblich und unbegreiflich zu finden. Katzenjammer ist ein Mittelding zwischen Gesundheit und Krankheit, zwischen Hunger und Uebersättigung, zwischen Trunkenheit und Nüchternheit.
      One of the most wondrous states of man, a phenomenon for physiology and pathology, a riddle for oenologists and naturalists, is the hangover, also called the ‘tomcat’. No language is rich enough to describe it; one must have felt it to find it indescribable and incomprehensible. The hangover is a halfway house between health and sickness, between hunger and surfeit, between drunkenness and sobriety.
  3. (obsolete) caterwaul; yowling of a cat
    Synonyms: Katzenmusik, Katzengesang, Katzengeheul, Katzenkonzert, Katerkonzert

Declension

Declension of Katzenjammer
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative ein der Katzenjammer
genitive eines des Katzenjammers
dative einem dem Katzenjammer
accusative einen den Katzenjammer

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Sven Siedenberg (2009) Besservisser beim Kaffeeklatsching: Deutsche Wörter im Ausland - ein Lexikon (in German), Heyne Verlag, →ISBN, page ?

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