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Tantrum   /tˈæntrəm/   Listen
Tantrum

noun
1.
A display of bad temper.  Synonyms: conniption, fit, scene.  "She threw a tantrum" , "He made a scene"






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"Tantrum" Quotes from Famous Books



... in a tantrum to-night, and would not come. That piece of his at Beaumanoir is a thorn in his flesh, and a snow-ball on his spirits. She is taming him. By St. Cocufin! Bigot loves ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... for this little tantrum of locking herself into her room, however, we must have it out ...
— Alice Sit-By-The-Fire • J. M. Barrie

... he could hear, the hails fetched no answer, save from the moose-jailer. The brute was stirred into a fresh tantrum by the noise. He charged the hemlocks once more, butted and shook them like ...
— Camp and Trail - A Story of the Maine Woods • Isabel Hornibrook

... want cheering up, Sam," said I, waiting till he had finished the verse. "The skipper's in a regular tantrum about you, and says you're to come aft ...
— The Island Treasure • John Conroy Hutcheson

... Baldinsville and the British Parlimunt, if such there has been, may now be forever wiped frum our Escutchuns. Baldinsville this night rejoises over the gerlorious event which sementz 2 grate nashuns onto one anuther by means of a elecktric wire under the roarin billers of the Nasty Deep. QUOSQUE TANTRUM, A BUTTER, CATERLINY, PATENT NOSTRUM!" Squire Smith's house was lited up regardlis of expense. His little sun William Henry stood upon the roof firin orf crackers. The old 'Squire hisself was dressed up in soljer clothes and stood on his door-step, pintin his ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1 • Charles Farrar Browne


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