katzenjammer

Other forms of katzenjammer

plural

katzenjammers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about katzenjammer

What does katzenjammer mean?

katzenjammer means "disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in katzenjammer?

katzenjammer has 4 syllables: kat-zen-jam-mer. The stress falls on "zen".

What is another word for katzenjammer?

Close synonyms include hangover, hubbub, uproar, brouhaha. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is katzenjammer a common word?

katzenjammer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.