katzenjammer
/ˈkætsənd͡ʒæmə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.50 in modern English
36
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hangover.
noun
noun
Alternative letter-case form of katzenjammer.
Example Sentences
- "Also, I had found my way into the realm of the mind, and I was intellectually intoxicated. (Alas! as I was to learn at a later period, intellectual intoxication too, has its katzenjammer.)"
- "In those days a still-birth brought as high as ten dollars and after riding the shoot-the-chutes we always left a little stale beer for the morning because the finest thing in the world for Katzenjammer is a glass of stale beer."
- "Tell you the truth, I've had an intimation from the State Department—unofficially, of course—that whenever a soldier of fortune demands a fleet of gunboats in a case of revolutionary katzenjammer, I should cut the cable, give him all the tobacco he wants, and after he's shot take his clothes, if they fit me, for part payment of my salary."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Katzenjammer