My mother threw a conniption fit when I didn’t come home till two in the morning.conniptioncon‧nip‧tion /kəˈnɪpʃən/ (also conˈniption ˌfit) noun [countable] American English old-fashioned 
My mother threw a conniption fit when I didn’t come home till two in the morning.
WORD ORIGINconniption
Origin:
1800-1900 Probably an invented wordCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY My mother threw a conniption fit when I didn’t come home till two in the morning.
a way of behaving which shows that you are very angry: My mother threw a conniption fit when I didn’t come home till two in the morning. My mother threw a conniption fit when I didn’t come home till two in the morning.