conniption
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prettygoodwordTheme week! -- I just happened to have a string of c-words almost in a row coming up, so might as make use of them.
conniption (kuh-NIP-shuhn) - n., a fit of vexation, rage, or panic.
Also "conniption fit," though I've never heard that in my dialect -- it was often plural when I was growing up, as in "she's got the conniptions." By which you might guess it's an Americanism, though it's also used in Canada: another colorful 19th century mock-Latinate coinage first attested in 1833, origin uncertain.
---L.
conniption (kuh-NIP-shuhn) - n., a fit of vexation, rage, or panic.
Also "conniption fit," though I've never heard that in my dialect -- it was often plural when I was growing up, as in "she's got the conniptions." By which you might guess it's an Americanism, though it's also used in Canada: another colorful 19th century mock-Latinate coinage first attested in 1833, origin uncertain.
---L.
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Date: 2012-04-30 02:50 pm (UTC)Regional usage of words is fascinating.
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Date: 2012-04-30 03:21 pm (UTC)---L.