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Fantods - Definition of Fantods at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Fantods. Look it up now! ... Usually, fantods. a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets (usually prec. by the): We all developed the fantods when the plane was late...
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Usually, fantods. a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets (usually prec. by the): We all developed the fantods when the plane was late in arriving. ... Sometimes, fantods. a sudden outpouring of anger, outrage, or a similar intense emotion...
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A word known mainly to Americans, 'fantods' refers to a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness. ... Modern writers may speak of somebody having a case of the fantods, or hyperbolically the flaming fantods or the swiveling fantods, descriptions of somebody in a state of extreme nervous hysteria or unreasonable...
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The Howling Fantods! David Foster Wallace News, Info and Links. Reporting since March 1997. ... Kathleen Fitzpatrick gave me permission to post her wallace-l report of the DFW Session at MLA09 here on the fantods, but before I got my act together she'd already posted it to her blog, Planned Obsolescence. Thanks for the...
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The Howling Fantods DFW News ------- Brick-Tastic! Films ... Terri and Ross Animation!
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MySpace Music profile for Fantods. Download Fantods Rock / Experimental / Indie music singles, watch music videos, listen to free streaming mp3s, & read Fantods's blog. ... Fantods; Rock / Experimental / Indie...
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An example of a word that makes readers sit up and take notice is "fantods", as in "howling fantods". David Foster Wallace uses the expression in his masterpiece Infinite Jest (Brown & Company, 1996) in this way: "There'd been parts of metro Boston near the Bay he'd refused to go to, as a child.
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Welcome to The Fantods (ex-The Willies) website . . . original homegrown music from Reno, Nevada, the answer and question to Life, the Universe and Everything! ... The Fantods - Reno, Nevada: the biggest little band in the world!
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The "fantods" (no one ever seems afflicted by a single fantod) are, as the American Heritage Dictionary puts it, "A state of nervous irritability...a fit." The venerable Dictionary of American English quotes an 1899 definition which rounds out the picture: "Fidgets, restlessness;
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Wordie: fantods: (n): an ill-defined state of irritability and distress. Wordie is a social network for people who love words. List words, add comments and citations, and discuss. ... JM is beside himself, in flaming fantods, screeching histrionics in the direst of foreboding and doom – he watched the Evening News!
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