conniption

英 [kə'nɪpʃ(ə)n] 美[kə'nɪpʃən]
  • n. 歇斯底里;阵怒(等于conniption fit)

英英释义


1. a display of bad temper;
"he had a fit"
"she threw a tantrum"
"he made a scene"

中文词源


conniption 生气,发狂

可能来自captious创造的新词。

英文词源


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.