fantods

Anxious or nervous unease, possibly to an extreme degree. Callie's pacing because she's got a case of the fantods today. After that horrific accident, my poor mother was afflicted with the fantods for the rest of her life. Just thinking about going out on a stage in front of hundreds of people is enough to give me a case of the fantods.

howling fantods

old-fashioned Extreme disquiet of the body and mind; anxious or nervous unease. My poor mother was afflicted with the howling fantods for the rest of her life following the accident. Just thinking about going out on a stage in front of hundreds of people to give my presentation is enough to give me the howling fantods. Callie's pacing because she's got a case of the howling fantods today.

screaming fantods

old-fashioned Extreme disquiet of the body and mind; anxious or nervous unease. My poor mother was afflicted with the screaming fantods for the rest of her life following the accident. Just thinking about going out on a stage in front of hundreds of people to give my presentation is enough to give me the screaming fantods.

screaming fantods

and (howling) fantods

n. extreme anxiety; nervous hysteria. (Old. One might call this vintage literary mock colloquial, since it survives in the works of well-known writers and occasional literary use. The origin is unknown, but the Oxford English Dictionary lists Fantad with the same meaning, and cautiously suggests that is related to fantasy and similar words containing fan.) The afternoon’s excitement has left Lady Waddington with a case of the screaming fantods. The reviewer felt that any slang dictionary that excluded “fantods” was defective.

howling fantods

verb

See screaming fantods

fantods

verb

See screaming fantods

See also: fantod

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References in periodicals archive

Yn ystod y rhaglen bydd Sarah yn edrych ar sefyllfa'r ani fail yn y gwyllt ac yn ymweld ag amddifaty sy'n gofalu am elif fantod bach sydd wedi colli eu mamau.

Cael cip ar y gwyllt ym mhedwar ban byd; Annes Glynn yn sgwrsio a Sarah Jones am ei thaith gofiadwy i Sri Lanka

It was random enough to give statisticians the screaming fantods.

Powder river double: bowhunting paradise in the most unlikely of Places

"Now is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of our country, and it won't help if you all cower in places like Madison and the Upper West Side, having hot fantods over the approach of fascism.

Molly Ivins in her own words

Affection for it may not extend much beyond fans of 19th-century literature who can take pleasure in hearing words like "rodomontade," "faugh" and "fantods" resurrected, albeit in a tale of quarreling lesbian lovers that would have observers of the Victorian era in which it is set reaching for their smelling salts.

Mamet's distinctive voice muffled in chintz

Instead of passions, they've got the fantods. They are nervous and jerky.

A course of life: my autobiography

Dillard's prose is simultaneously crowded and vibrant: She deals out details of the natural world (the men stand on a ten-foot platform to avoid having to saw through many extra feet of gummy, pitch-laden bark that swells near the ground); she flatters us with a vocabulary so patently unabridged that 1, for one, read her books in the company of a good dictionary (one of the two men realizes his ignorance and it "gives him the fantods"); her descriptions tend to arrest the mind's eye in its tracks (as the men drew the crosscut saw between them, "muscles moved all over their two backs like salmon in creeks").

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