Re: You have a word for it?

>On 25 Jan 02, at 18:26, Elliott Belser wrote:
>
>>  Katzenjammer (German, for, erm, 'cats copulating') is a word for a
>>  trancendentally severe hangover.
>
>Erm, not quite. More like "the sound of cats whining (as during mating
>time)". "Jammern" is "to whine", more or less. It's got nothing to do
>with copulation _per se_.


>That's what the literal translation given in "They have a word for
>it" was.  Uups...