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English
Noun
Katzenjammer (plural Katzenjammers)
- 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”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
Katzenjammer m (strong, genitive Katzenjammers, no plural)
- dejection, frustration, depression
- (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.
- (obsolete) caterwaul; yowling of a cat
- Synonyms: Katzenmusik, Katzengesang, Katzengeheul, Katzenkonzert, Katerkonzert
Declension
Declension of Katzenjammer
Descendants
References
- ^ Sven Siedenberg (2009) Besservisser beim Kaffeeklatsching: Deutsche Wörter im Ausland - ein Lexikon (in German), Heyne Verlag, →ISBN, page ?
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