conniption.
A fit of anger or panic; conniption fit.
Meaning & usage
A fit of anger or panic; conniption fit.
When she came downstairs and saw what her children were eating, she had a conniption.
A fit of laughing; convulsion.
The joke was not that funny, but he went into conniptions laughing.
Where this word comes from
Since 1833, from American English. Unknown origin, possibly a fanciful alteration of corruption, or maybe related to captious. Alternatively an arbitrary pseudo-Latinism coinage.
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