wingdingn.

1927 Amer. Speech 2 281/1 Wingding, a false illness or fit.

1933 Amer. Speech 8 ii. 28/1 When an addict who..cannot obtain dope..becomes desperate, he may throw a wing-ding (feign a highly realistic fit in public) in the hope that the doctor..will administer narcotics to quiet him; professional wing-dingers are addicts who make a practice of obtaining their narcotics in this manner.

1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xxxii. 292 She threw a wingding. Looked like a mild epileptic fit.

1944 Amer. Speech 19 107 A wing-ding is a particularly explosive fit of rage or frustration (I'm telling you the mate will throw a wing~ding!).

1946 ‘J. Evans’ Halo in Blood xiv. 166 I..watched her take deep unsteady breaths... Her hands were locked together in her lap but that didn't keep them from trembling. ‘About a minute,’ I said mildly, ‘You're going to throw a wing-ding they'll hear in Detroit. You're wound up tighter than a dollar watch.’

1957 V. Packard Hidden Persuaders ix. 102 This venture back to the womb touched off a little wingding in advertising circles.

1965 P. Tamony Americanisms (typescript) No. ii. 3 It assigned..Winifred Sweet..to throw a wing~ding..in Market Street.

1949 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 5 Mar. 10/3 We are not sure just what the Festival is to be, but some sort of native whingding no doubt.

1955 R. Bradbury October Country 18 We would have to arrive when the local Rotary's having its whingding.

1964 Punch 15 July 79/3 My invitation to a White House schnapps wingding.

1972 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 6 Aug. 3/4 Last Tuesday was Pat's birthday, so there was a big wing-ding at Maroochydore's posh Surfair pub.

1975 Listener 18 Dec. 832/3 The funeral bak'd meats will serve the triple economy of a divorce wing-ding as well.

1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) iii. xi. 243 How are you, Nim? Don't see you often at these Jewish wingdings.

1949 V. J. Monteleone Criminal Slang (new ed.) 253 Wing-dinger (n.), a pretended fit or spasm; a forced faint.

1976 Telegraph (Brisbane) 5 Aug. 39/3 This leads to a wing-dinger of a brawl, when Bobbie's brother..sights the louts who have busted up his father and their truck on the bridge.