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katzenjammer U.S. colloq.|ˈkætsənˌdʒæmə(r)|
[G., f. katzen (comb. form of katze cat) + jammer distress, wailing.]
a. A hangover, or a symptom of one.
1849Ex. Doc. 31st U.S. Congress 1 Sess. House No. 5. iii. 733 Some of Mr. Hale's men had kept up a drunken frolic all night, general kakenjammer [sic], therefore all day. 1877R. J. Burdette Rise & Fall of Mustache 291 This ‘Centennial Cordial and American Indian Aboriginal Invigorator’..has positively no equal for the cure of..katzenjammer. 1948Life 5 Apr. 111/2 Attempting to drink himself to death on..vodka and champagne... The result one of the most colossal Katzenjammers ever recorded. He was in bed for a week. 1965P. De Vries Let Me count the Ways ix. 125 The symptoms classic to hangover persist. Dizziness, nausea, headache—you know that katzenjammer just above the eyes.
b. transf. and fig. An unpleasant aftermath or reaction; depression, ‘blues’; clamour, uproar.
1897W. W. Cook in Yellow Kid 8 May 26/2 He has a deplorable habit of constantly looking for something. Either he is the relict of some individual who was brought up in a sawmill or else he is suffering from a bad attack of katzenjammer. 1900W. James Let. 8 June in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) II. 198, I am afraid of what the French people may do during the Katzenjammer which will inevitably succeed the Exhibition. 1922W. Stevens Let. 24 Aug. (1967) 228 Nothing has survived the subsequent katzenjammer. 1949I. Deutscher Stalin x. 406 Amid the Katzenjammer which befell them after 1933, most leaders of the German left were only too eager to explain away their own failure. 1960B. Keaton Wonderful World of Slapstick (1967) iv. 74 The Katzenjammer spirit of the other acts on the bill inspired them to contribute new plot turns.
c. Katzenjammer Kids (or Katzenjammer Children), mischievous, naughty children; enfants terribles. So called from the title of a comic strip, first drawn by Rudolph Dirks in 1897 for the New York Journal, featuring Hans and Fritz, two incorrigible children. Also attrib.
1897R. Dirks in N.Y. Jrnl. 12 Dec. 8 (comic strip title) Ach, Those Katzenjammer Kids! 1910M. G. Pedrick in Good Housekeeping (N.Y.) May 625/2 The children are engrossed with the mishaps of Happy Hooligan, Smarty, Gaston or the ‘demoniacal ingenuity of the Katzenjammer Kids’. 1947W. Stevens Let. June (1967) 558 The noisy Katzenjammer children..were upstairs saying their prayers. 1962Times Lit. Suppl. 13 July 511/3 He has no difficulty in matching the varied dialects of the Greek, drawing as required on such rich sources as mint-julep Southern, broad Brooklynese or Katzenjammerkids German. |