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- noun Plural form of
fantod . To have “the fantods” is to be in a state of nervousness, distress, or anxiety.
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- noun an ill-defined state of irritability and distress
Etymologies
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Examples
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I think the blue fantods is probably exactly what Altman would have suffered if he'd lived to see Avatar.
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I think Avatar would have given Altman the shrieking blue fantods, if you'll excuse the expression.
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It must have been a case of the dreaded leaping fantods.
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It must have been a case of the dreaded leaping fantods.
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I will of course have to wash my hair and bathe afterwards, and then spend a few weeks recuperating so that I don't get the fantods.
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Just watching the window washers swinging on their seemingly rickety rope rigs gives me the fantods.
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Savage Arms, which gave the shooting industry the leaping fantods when it introduced the Accu-Trigger, has just announced the Accu-Stock, which is just as radical.
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In fact, to settle my inflight fantods, I have already consumed three screwdrivers.
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If you use perfume thereafter, go easy on the saucy splash behind the ears, because you can bet that some grump or hyper-sensitive soul will complain bitterly about headache, nausea or a general outbreak of the fantods.
Dress For Success 2006
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The idea of facing a discerning Eastern audience gave Sam the fantods, but he said yes, and Frank Fuller joined Charles Henry Webb on the Mark Twain multimedia express, as his lecture manager.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
billifer commented on the word fantods
Some of the words people post on here give me the howling fantods.
January 5, 2007
billifer commented on the word fantods
Main Entry: fan·tod
Variant(s): also fan·tad
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): -s
Etymology: perhaps alteration of fantigue
1 usually fantods plural a : a state of irritability, fidget, and tension; sometimes : a state of acute worry and distress b : a state of bodily or mental disorder especially when ill-defined and more or less chronic
2 sometimes fantods plural a : an instance or occurrence of the fantods b : a violent or irrational outburst
3 : a fidgety fussy officer of a ship
Citation:
"fantod." Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (6 Jan. 2007).
January 6, 2007
trivet commented on the word fantods
hee, hee!
September 24, 2007
missanthropist commented on the word fantods
A mythical disease causing melancholy, nervousness, depression; The Willies.
July 16, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word fantods
JM is beside himself, in flaming fantods, screeching histrionics in the direst of foreboding and doom – he watched the Evening News!
February 19, 2009
michaelphilipsmith commented on the word fantods
Shouldn't DFW be added into the examples?
May 20, 2010
chelster commented on the word fantods
"These was all nice pictures, I reckon, but I didn't somehow seem to take to them, because if ever I was down a little, they always give me the fan-tods." -- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884. The earliest citation in the Dictionary of American Regional English is from 1876.
June 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word fantods
Congratulations to fantods for making it onto the 2013 Wayne State Word Warriors list of words that should be used more often. Seen here.
January 31, 2013
milosrdenstvi commented on the word fantods
Didn't David Foster Wallace use it enough times to last us the next couple of decades?
February 2, 2013