Crossword clues for conniption
conniption
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context informal English) A fit of anger or panic; conniption fit. 2 A fit of laughing; convulsion.
WordNet
Usage examples of "conniption".
One never knew when Carole would decide to dunk one in something liquid, or when Anastasia would fly into a royal swanly conniption.
Stuart would have a conniption if he knew she was contemplating spending time alone with this tall, dark, handsome stranger who might or might not be a murderer.
The senior people at CIA liked working with you, and you helped with funding for a project some other folks on The Hill had a conniption fit over.
We had a guy that bought the house next door who took a conniption fit because he said there were specks of dust trapped in the finish of the dining-room floor.
He had a conniption fit for two days, and then he had another stroke and had to be hospitalized all over again.
Darlene's going to have a conniption fit if she has to have him another night.
Friend of yours or not, Sergeant Phillips will have a conniption if he finds out we've been interrogating suspects behind his back, not to mention withholding evidence.
Ritter would just throw another conniption fit, and Moore wasn't up to that on a Sunday.
If the she-animal suddenly began groaning with pleasure, if the she-animal suddenly began to throw a pleasurable conniption fit, the jaws moving like old shoe laces, the chest wheezing and the ribs creaking, if the she-bugger suddenly started to fall apart on the floor, to the collapse of joy and overexasperation, just at the moment, not a second this side or that, the promised tableland would hove in sight like a ship coming up out of a fog and there would be nothing to do but plant the stars and stripes on it and claim it in the name of Uncle Sam and all that's holy.
Aunt Ardith would have had a conniption fit at the thought of her mousy, sedate niece letting a strange man put his tongue in her mouth.
If any grownup happened to see him right then they'd think they was likkered up or having a conniption fit, he dug so fast.
Golsway cocked an eyebrow, a move that was known to send those who knew of him into conniption fits.
They perfume them and wear gloves and have conniption fits if they break a fingernail.
That way they won't have conniptions if they come roaring in and find out I'm asleep.
Bowser, “it was awful of you—for it was so frightfully improper to get behind that locked door, to say nothing of throwing us all into conniptions with firing guns, and calling for axes, and highbinders, and police, and Heaven knows what all—and what are highbinders, Mr.