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KATZENJAMMER

[KAT-suhn-jam-er] 

DEFINITION:
 

-noun

1. The discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover. 
2. Uneasiness; anguish; distress.

-noun

1. Uproar; clamor. 

EXAMPLES: 

1. So the asceticism and self-denial of the ancient anchorite and saint was merely a form of katzenjammer?   - Nietzsche, Thoughts Out Of Season  
2. Ninety to a hundred days at sea, with dysentery, beri-beri, crabs, lice, rabies, yellow jaundice, malaria, katzenjammer and other oceangoing delights.  - Miller, Nexus