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English
Etymology
Since 1833, from American English. Unknown origin, probably a fanciful alternation of corruption etc., or maybe related to captious.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
conniption (plural conniptions)
- (informal) A fit of anger or panic; conniption fit.
- Synonyms: tantrum; see also Thesaurus:tantrum
When she came downstairs and saw what her children were eating, she had a conniption.
2001, “My Plague”, in Iowa, performed by Slipknot:I'm in conniptions for the final act you came here for
2008 October 20, Businessweek:[…] threatened by the conniptions gripping Wall Street
- A fit of laughing; convulsion.
The joke was not that funny, but he went into conniptions laughing.
Translations
fit of anger or panic
- Bulgarian: истерия (bg) f (isterija)
- Czech: záchvat (cs) m
- Dutch: woedeuitbarsting
- Finnish: kohtaus (fi)
- French: crise de colère f, crise de panique f
- Galician: ataque de ansiedade f, ataque de histeria f, ataque de pánico f
- German: Anfall (de) m, hysterischer Anfall m, Wutanfall (de) m, Panikattacke (de) f
- Hungarian: dühroham (hu)
- Norwegian: fnatt n, raserianfall n
- Russian: припа́док истерии m (pripádok isterii), исте́рика (ru) f (istérika), при́ступ гнева m (prístup gneva)
- Serbo-Croatian: histerični napad m
- Spanish: ataque de rabia; rabieta
- Swedish: damp (sv), dille (sv), fnatt (sv), tuppjuck (sv), frispel
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