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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fantods

1835, jocular formation, perhaps based on fantasy.\n\nThere is an indescribable complaint, which will never allow a moment's repose to mind or body; which nothing will satisfy
--which allows of no beginning, and no ending
--which wheels round the mind like the squirrel in its cage, ever moving, but still making no progress. It is called the Fantods. From the diagnostics, we pronounce Lord Brougham incurably diseased with the Fantods.

["The Metropolitan," London, October 1835]

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fantods

n. (context chiefly dated English) (plural of fantod English) ''To have “the fantods” is to be in a state of nervousness, distress, or anxiety''.

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fantods

n. an ill-defined state of irritability and distress

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Nothing at all like those nervous fantods we got in the Fungus Forest, either.