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单词 tantrum
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tantrumn.

Brit. /ˈtantrəm/, U.S. /ˈtæntrəm/
Forms: Also 1700s–1800s tantarum.
Etymology: Origin unascertained. In Wallis's Room for the Cobbler of Gloucester (1668) 4 tantrum appears as a Welshman's mispronunciation of anthem, but apparently has no connection with this word.
colloquial.
An outburst or display of petulance or ill-temper; a fit of passion. Frequently in plural. Now often spec. a fit of bad temper in a young child.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] > fit of > outburst of
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1714 E. Verney Let. 30 Oct. in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. (1930) II. xxi. 18 Our lady has had some of her tanterums as Vapors comeing out etc.
1754 S. Foote Knights ii. 41 None of your Fleers!..Your Tantrums! You are grown too head-strong and robust for me.
1754 J. Shebbeare Marriage Act I. xxvi. 153 Where did the Wench get these Tantarums into her Head?
1776 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 206 Treating him with some contempt when he is in his tantrums.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 217 An author, who was always in a tantrum if interrupted.
1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 52 He goes into his tantarums at the abbey.
1884 Times 12 Mar. 3 The defendant told him not to get into a tantrum.
1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes xi. 283 Sir Robert was in one of his tantrums.
1966 M. Frayn Russian Interpreter xxii. 103 ‘Let's put all these books away in the case again,’ she said coaxingly, as if Proctor-Gould had thrown his toys about in a tantrum.
1979 N. Gordimer Burger's Daughter 329 If we'd still been children, I might have been throwing stones at him in a tantrum.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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