Definition of "katzenjammer" []

• A loud, discordant noise. (noun)
• A hangover. (noun)
• A state of depression or bewilderment. (noun)

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• "(Alas! as I was to learn at a later period, intellectual intoxication too. has its katzenjammer.) « Table of contents"
• "From below deck, a katzenjammer of libidinous voices is heard."
• "If in doing so he were to be perceived as another wealthy and indolent foreigner (usually German or French but not always so) suffering and despondent because of a katzenjammer from a previous night of quaffing Laos Beer, so be it."