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cabin fever
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
surliness and bad temper resulting from being confined with someone else in a small, isolated cabin.
Quotations
1953
Cabin fever, next to being bushed, is an insidious disease which creeps unnoticed upon people who are forced to live together for a long time in cramped quarters.
1955
"You're just getting cabin fever with your neighbour," I said. "You fellows have been seeing too much of each other."