katzenjammern.
/ˈkatsənˌdʒamə/ U.S. colloquial.
a. A hangover, or a symptom of one.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > effects of excessive drinking
ale passion1593
pot verdugo1616
barley-mood1790
katzenjammer1849
Monday head1892
swollen head1898
hangover1904
the morning after (the night before)1909
morning-after1937
whitey1993
1849 Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (31st Congress, 1st Sess.) No. 5. iii. 733 Some of Mr. Hale's men had kept up a drunken frolic all night, general kakenjammer [sic], therefore all day.
1877 R. J. Burdette Rise & Fall of Mustache 291 This ‘Centennial Cordial and American Indian Aboriginal Invigorator’..has positively no equal for the cure of..katzenjammer.
1948 Life 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.
1965 P. De Vries Let me count Ways ix. 125 The symptoms classic to hangover persist. Dizziness, nausea, headache—you know that katzenjammer just above the eyes.
b. transferred and figurative. An unpleasant aftermath or reaction; depression, ‘blues’; clamour, uproar.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > undesired or unintended consequence(s) or side-effect
repercussion1603
aftermath1671
ill effect1675
mal-effect1686
side effect1814
wrack1844
implication1873
backwash1876
katzenjammer1897
backlash1921
kickback1935
spillover1940
fallout1954
rub-off1962
booby prize1972
own goal1975
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of
gloominga1400
dumpa1535
mubble fubbles1589
mulligrubs1599
mumps1599
mood1609
blues1741
mopes1742
gloom1744
humdrums1757
dismals1764
horror1768
mournfuls1794
doldrum1811
doleful1822
glumps1825
jim-jams1896
katzenjammer1897
the sniffles1903
mopery1907
joes1916
woofits1918
cafard1924
jimmies1928
the blahs1969
downer1970
1897 W. 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.
1900 W. James Let. 8 June in R. B. Perry Thought & 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.
1922 W. Stevens Let. 24 Aug. (1967) 228 Nothing has survived the subsequent katzenjammer.
1949 I. 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.
1960 B. Keaton My Wonderful World of Slapstick iv. 74 The Katzenjammer spirit of the other acts on the bill inspired them to contribute new plot turns.
c. Katzenjammer Kids (or 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 attributive.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [noun] > unruly person > children
Katzenjammer Kids (or Children)1897
1897 R. Dirks in N.Y. Jrnl. 12 Dec. 8 (comic strip title) Ach, Those Katzenjammer Kids!
1910 M. G. Pedrick in Good Housek. May 625/2 The children are engrossed with the mishaps of Happy Hooligan, Smarty, Gaston or the ‘demoniacal ingenuity of the Katzenjammer Kids’.
1947 W. Stevens Let. June (1967) 558 The noisy Katzenjammer children..were upstairs saying their prayers.
1962 Times 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.
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