conniption

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    a display of bad temper

Word Origin

conniption (n.)
1833, American English, origin uncertain; perhaps related to corruption, which was used in a sense of "anger" from 1799, or from English dialectal canapshus "ill-tempered, captious," probably a corruption of captious.

Example

1. The stage seemed set for another china-based market conniption .

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