headfit

noun

1. (British, West-Country, slang)A sudden fit of temper; a tantrum.

   “I also won't discipline when a child is busy throwing a headfit because anything I say or do will be ignored.”

   “I started eventing in 1988 and they definitely were not compulsory then. I remember because after I'd been xc a family friend realised I didn't have a 'back protector' on, had a headfit, and frogmarched me to the tradestands at Brigstock to force me to buy one.”