conniption

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Second-place winner Nada Bader, a 12-year-old seventh-grader from Crestwood Middle School, met her downfall with the word "conniption" - a fit of rage, hysteria or alarm.

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  1. noun Informal A fit of violent emotion, such as anger or panic. Also called conniption fit.

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  • And who in conniption are you I am Melantha Merwoman What are you doing out of your ingredient My what Your component, aspect, fragment, division, portion, segment Oh, you mean my element! —  The Color of Her Panties
  • Fox's conniption is that the report named two Fox News stalwarts as racially divisive. —  News Hounds
  • She knows how to spell "conniption," too, and that's what earned the Charleston Middle School seventh-grader the title at the Regional Spelling Bee.
  • The D.C. news anchors were utterly charmed, not just with the story but with coach's use of the somewhat folksy word "conniption." —  Thestar.com - Home Page
  • At the moment, we can only say that despite its classical look, conniption, which does not trace to Latin or any Romance language, must have been modeled on such nouns as conscription, constriction, conviction, and so forth. —  OUPblog
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Mock Latin, perhaps influenced by snip or snap.

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  1. A made word of Latin appearance, as it were a blend of con(vulsion) and (er)uption.
 

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/kəˈnɪpʃən/
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