English
Noun
conniption (plural conniptions)
- (informal) A fit of anger or panic; conniption fit.
- When she came downstairs and saw what her children were eating, she had a conniption.
- ...threatened by the conniptions gripping Wall Street (Businessweek Oct.20, 2008)
- A fit of laughing; convulsion.
- The joke was not that funny, but he went into conniptions laughing.
Translations
fit of anger or panic
- Bulgarian: истерия (bg) f (isterija)
- Czech: záchvat m
- Dutch: woedeuitbarsting
- Finnish: kohtaus (fi)
- French: crise de colère f – crise de panique f
|
|
- Galician: ataque de ansiedade f, ataque de histeria f, ataque de pánico f
- German: Anfall (de) m, hysterischer Anfall m, Wutanfall (de) m
- Norwegian: fnatt n, raserianfall n
- Russian: припа́док истерии m (pripádok isterii), исте́рика (ru) f (istérika), при́ступ гнева m (prístup gneva)
- Swedish: damp (sv), dille (sv), fnatt (sv), tuppjuck (sv), frispel
|
fit of laughing
- Czech: záchvat m
- Dutch: slappe lach
- Finnish: kohtaus (fi)
- French: crise (f.) de fou-rire (m.)
|
|
- German: Lachanfall (de) m
- Norwegian: latterkrampe f, lattis/lættis (no) m (slang)
|