hysterics

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hysterics

  1. plural of hysteric

Noun

hysterics pl (plural only)

  1. Hysteria; a bout of hysteria.
    Her hysterics are uncontrollable.
    The jokes had me in hysterics.
    • 1837, L E L, “The Last Night with the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 317:
      But when they went to tread down the earth, it seemed to her like sacrilege; and, forgetting every thing in one strong emotion, she sprang forward to prevent it. The effort was too much; and, for the first time, she sank back in the arms of the servants in strong hysterics!
    • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 24:
      "How such swooning daughters can do it, constantly fainting and having hysterics, is a mystery to me," said Muriel Jane. "Ho, they're a pretty sly lot," said Silvander Dan.

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