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jammer

“jammer” is a Danish word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. wail, moan, woe
  2. pitiful, sad condition or state of something.

Etymology

From Middle Low German jammer. A nominalization from Old High German jāmar (“sorrow”), from Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful”). Cognate with Old English ġeōmor

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