tantrum

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Affected airs; insolences; whims.----Halliwell.


I thought where your tantrums would end.--Jamieson's Popular Ballads.

A scolding woman, in one of her tantrums, told an old parson, that she could preach as well as he could, and he might select the text.--Crockett, Tour down East, p. 83.

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