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katzenjammer

/ˈkætsənd͡ʒæmə(ɹ)/noun

katzenjammer is a noun meaning “A hangover” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-A-T-Z-E-N-J-A-M-M-E-R, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of katzenjammer is katzenjammers.

What does katzenjammer mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A hangover.

  2. 2

    Jitters; discord; confusion.

  3. 3

    Depression.

noun

as Katzenjammer
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of katzenjammer.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce katzenjammer?

  • /ˈkætsənd͡ʒæmə(ɹ)/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-katzenjammer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of katzenjammer

  • katzenjammers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is katzenjammer?

Katzenjammer appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does katzenjammer come from?

Borrowed from German Katzenjammer (“hangover”, literally “the wailing of cats”); a determinative compound formed from Katze (“cat”) + -n- + Jammer (“wailing; lamentation”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).