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fury

English

Etymology 1

From Old French furie, from Latin furia (rage)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?fj???i/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?fj??i/
  • Rhymes: -???i

Noun

fury (countable and uncountable, plural furies)

  1. Extreme anger.
  2. Strength or violence in action.
  3. An angry or malignant person.
Derived terms
  • furious
Translations

Etymology 2

Latin fur (thief).

Noun

fury (plural furies)

  1. (obsolete) A thief.
    • Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?fu.r?/

Noun

fury f

  1. inflection of fura:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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tantrum

English

Etymology

From earlier tanterum. Further etymology unknown. Possibly from Tamil ???????? (tantiram, stratagem, cunning, ruse, tactic, trickery).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?tænt??m/

Noun

tantrum (plural tantrums)

  1. An often childish display or fit of bad temper.

Synonyms

  • (childish display of bad temper): dummy spit, hissy fit, see also Thesaurus:tantrum

Derived terms

  • temper tantrum
  • throw a tantrum

Translations

Verb

tantrum (third-person singular simple present tantrums, present participle tantruming or tantrumming, simple past and past participle tantrumed or tantrummed)

  1. (intransitive) To throw a tantrum.

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