fantods

You have got strong symptoms of the fantods; your skin is so tight you can’t shut your eyes without opening your mouth.”

1839, Charles Frederick Briggs, Adventures of Harry Franco

[…]I catched a glimpse of fire away through the trees. I went for it, cautious and slow. By and by I was close enough to have a look, and there laid a man on the ground. It most give me the fantods.

1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC

You can't be on the fence about this article. It'll make you cheer loudly or roar with annoyance. It gave two of our editors the fantods.

1935, The American Magazine, page 66

I know, I know, the mere thought of a right-wing Dallas billionaire buying the presidency gives you the hot fantods.

1992 July/August, Molly Ivins, “Bubba's Billionaire”, in Mother Jones Magazine, page 8

Last week a grounds-crew lawnmower sitting clean and silent and somehow menacing in the middle of the dawn kitchen gave Mrs. Clarke the fantods and resulted in Eggplant Parmesan for two suppers in a row, which sent shock waves.

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 632