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fantod|ˈfæntæd|
Also fantad.
[? An unmeaning formation suggested by fantastic, fantasy, etc.: cf. fantigue.]
A crotchety way of acting; a fad.
1839C. F. Briggs Adv. H. Franco I. 249 You have got strong symptoms of the fantods. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Fantods, a name given to the fidgets of officers. 1880Mrs. Parr Adam & Eve xxxii. 440 I'd do the trick, if I was she, 'fore I'd put up with such fantads from you. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss., Fantodds, ‘megrims’, ‘mulligrubs’, a stomach-ache; a fit of the sulks or other slight indisposition, mental or bodily. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xvii, These was all nice pictures,..but I didn't somehow seem to take to them, because..they always give me the fan-tods. 1886Barnes Dorset Dial. 63 Fantod, a fuss, fidget. ‘She's always in a fantod about Meary’. 1910Sat. Westm. Gaz. 1 Jan. 6/1 Sundays inside of a house gives you the fan-tods. 1920Galsworthy In Chancery i. v, You mustn't get into a fantod, it'll never do. 1935J. Masefield Box of Delights viii. 220 ‘I say,’ Kay said, ‘what a place!’ ‘It gives me the fantods,’ Peter answered. ‘I don't like the place.’
Hence ˈfantod a., Fidgetty, restless.
1887in Kent Gloss. 1883W. C. Russell Sailor's Lang., Fantod, A fiddling officer who is always bothering over small things. |