conniption

English

WOTD – 21 January 2009

Etymology

Since 1833, from American English. Unknown origin, perhaps related to corruption or captious.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kəˈnɪp.ʃən/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

conniption (plural conniptions)

(informal) A fit of anger or panic; conniption fit.
When she came downstairs and saw what her children were eating, she had a conniption.

...threatened by the conniptions gripping Wall Street (Businessweek Oct.20, 2008)
A fit of laughing; convulsion.
The joke was not that funny, but he went into conniptions laughing.

Synonyms

(fit of anger or panic): see Thesaurus:tantrum

Translations

fit of anger or panic

Bulgarian: истерия (bg) f (isterija)
Czech: záchvat 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
Norwegian: fnatt n, raserianfall n
Russian: припа́док истерии m (pripádok isterii), исте́рика (ru) f (istérika), при́ступ гнева m (prístup gneva)
Swedish: damp (sv), dille (sv), fnatt (sv), tuppjuck (sv), frispel

fit of laughing

Czech: záchvat m
Dutch: slappe lach
Finnish: kohtaus (fi)

French: crise (f.) de fou-rire (m.)
German: Lachanfall (de) m
Norwegian: latterkrampe f, lattis (no)/lættis (no) m (slang)

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