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Conniption

//kəˈnɪp.ʃən// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fit of anger or panic; conniption fit. informal

    "When she came downstairs and saw what her children were eating, she had a conniption."

  2. 2
    a display of bad temper wordnet
  3. 3
    A fit of laughing; convulsion.

    "The joke was not that funny, but he went into conniptions laughing."

Etymology

Since 1833, from American English. Unknown origin, probably a fanciful alteration of corruption etc., or maybe related to captious.

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