Definition of katzenjammer in English:
katzenjammer
NOUN
1US informal, dated Confusion; uproar.
1.1A hangover; a severe headache resulting from a hangover.
Origin
Mid 19th century from German Katzen (combining form of Katze ‘cat’) + Jammer ‘distress’; popularized by the cartoon Katzenjammer Kids, drawn by Rudolf Dirks in 1897 for the New York Journal, featuring two incorrigible children.
Pronunciation
katzenjammer
/ˈkatsənˌjamər/ /ˈkætsənˌdʒæmər/
katzenjammer
NOUN
1US informal, dated Confusion; uproar.
1.1A hangover; a severe headache resulting from a hangover.
Origin
Mid 19th century from German Katzen (combining form of Katze ‘cat’) + Jammer ‘distress’; popularized by the cartoon Katzenjammer Kids, drawn by Rudolf Dirks in 1897 for the New York Journal, featuring two incorrigible children.
Pronunciation
katzenjammer
/ˈkatsənˌjamər/ /ˈkætsənˌdʒæmər/
All of this criminal katzenjammer - and much, much more - was authorized at the highest levels, as top procurement brass and Pentagon officials confirmed.’
‘And yet, in 1979, the man who loaned his prestigious name to this enormous katzenjammer denounced the parapsychologists for being weird.’
‘The war and the next war have nothing to do with liberation or terrorism or any of that katzenjammer.’‘By now, my katzenjammer had eased to the point where my head only throbbed if I made sudden movements.’
Katzenjammer (ˈkætsənˌdʒæmər)
‘And yet, in 1979, the man who loaned his prestigious name to this enormous katzenjammer denounced the parapsychologists for being weird.’
‘The war and the next war have nothing to do with liberation or terrorism or any of that katzenjammer.’‘By now, my katzenjammer had eased to the point where my head only throbbed if I made sudden movements.’
Katzenjammer (ˈkætsənˌdʒæmər)
by ANCIENT_WOLFY January 20, 2022