[kalee]

It’s another name for tantrum. Hissy fits are a southern thing and may be called something else where you live.

Other names

Dummy spit (Australian)
Tanny spit (Irish)
Hissy fit
Tizzy
Tanty
Paddy (anti-Irish origin)
Temper Tantrum
Outburst Tirade
A petulant frenzy
Meltdown
Wobbler
Wobbly
Breakdown
Fanfare
Strop
Sulk

[Gamecock]

Let’s not forget “pitched a fit.”

[NTHockey]

>>It’s another name for tantrum. Hissy fits are a southern thing and may be called something else where you live.

Other names

Dummy spit (Australian)
Tanny spit (Irish)
Hissy fit
Tizzy
Tanty
Paddy (anti-Irish origin)
Temper Tantrum
Outburst Tirade
A petulant frenzy
Meltdown
Wobbler
Wobbly
Breakdown
Fanfare
Strop
Sulk

And one must not omit conniption which Bill Cosby once described as something “you don’t want to see - my wife’s head split open and fire came out of her brain and her eyes bulged out of their sockets.””

[Drawsing]

No, I am a southern boy and I am well familiar with “hissy fit”. I just like to have fun with language.

[PLMerite]

Good, but not as funny as National Lampoon’s list of other terms for “vomit.”