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fury | conniption |

As a proper noun fury

is (lb) female personification of vengeance ().

As a noun conniption is

(informal) a fit of anger or panic; conniption fit.

fury

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) furie, from (etyl)

Noun

(furies)
  • Extreme anger.
  • Strength or violence in action.
  • *
  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,!”
  • An angry or malignant person.
    • Derived terms
    * furious

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) .

    Noun

    (furies)
  • (obsolete) A thief.
  • * J. Fletcher
    • Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies .

    conniption

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.