cabin fever

Meaning

Noun

• A condition of restlessness and irritability caused by being in a confined space.
• Typhus.

Origin

• In the current sense coined or popularized in a 1918 novel of the same name.{{cite-book
• |year=1918
• |title=Cabin Fever
• |author=B. M. Bower
• |chapter=1
• |authorlink=B. M. Bower
• |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1204/1204-h/1204-h.htm