meemie

screamie-meemie

1. slang A screaming, crying infant or young child. The poor couple came in with three screamie-meemies hanging off of them. Now, now, Dorothy—don't be a screamie-meemie! You can play with the toy when it's your turn!
2. slang By extension, someone who is prone to overblown, petulant complaints. You sure like to dish out insults to people, but you turn into a real screamie-meemie the moment anyone says anything against you. I'm not being a screamie-meemie! I just don't like you talking to me that way.
3. slang An attack of nervous agitation, as caused by fear, stress, anxiety, etc. Used the plural constructions. We all got a bad case of the screamie-meemies when we walked into the spooky old house. My poor mother had the screamie-meemies all day as she waited for the doctor to call with her results.

screaming-meemie

1. A screaming, crying infant or young child. The poor couple came in with three screaming-meemies hanging off of them. Now, now, Dorothy—don't be a screaming-meemie! You can play with the toy when it's your turn!
2. By extension, someone who is prone to overblown, petulant complaints. You sure like to dish out insults to people, but you turn into a real screaming-meemie the moment anyone says anything against you. I'm not being a screaming-meemie! I just don't like you talking to me that way.
3. An attack of nervous agitation, as caused by fear, stress, anxiety, etc. Used in the plural. We all got a bad case of the screaming-meemies when we walked into the spooky old house. My poor mother had the screaming-meemies all day as she waited for the doctor to call with her results.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

screaming-meemie

and screamie-meemie
n. a screaming child or adult. Oh, don’t be such a screaming-meemie!

screamie-meemie

verb
See screaming-meemie
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • meamie
  • meamies
  • meemies
  • screamie
  • screamie-meemie
  • screaming-meamies
  • screaming-meemie
  • screaming-meemies
  • for crying in a bucket
  • ruby slippers
References in periodicals archive
Williamson sent our wire crew up ahead and then told me to find more about an area where the shells we called "screaming meemies" were falling.
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Boden, " 'Screaming Meemies' Was the Name for the Ferocious German Rocket Used at the Battle of the Bulge," World War II, Vol.
Die Nebeltruppe
Some were showered by nebelwerfer, rocket-launched high explosives known to Allied soldiers as "screaming meemies" for the shrill sound they made in flight.
Heilbronn: one last place to die
Elsewhere--and even more fun--I write: "Having the screaming meemies is like having the heebie-jeebies."
The grammar checker thinks about that a little, then says to consider "as" or "as if" instead of "like." And as if that weren't bad enough, the spellchecker chimes in that I should change "meemies" to "memos" "mammies," "mummies" "mommies" or "mimes."
Electronic intelligence? No such thing
The remasculinizing escapes are but temporary comforts that cannot remedy the "meemies" nor rectify a dissolving marriage (162).
Jarvis's description suits Gaylord, who, following emotional and psychological wounds--"meemies" and divorce--rekindles his interest in warfare and seeks the thrill of combat.
"[T]he very worst ... the oldest, deepest fear": masculine anxiety and male responses to emasculatory threats in Martha Gellhorn's Point of No Return
A hangover, the result of a drinking spree, has also been called the "katzenjammers" (from the German for cat's wailing), the "DT's" (an abbreviation of the Latin "delirium tremens" - trembling delirium), the "heebie-jeebies" (from the 1923 comic strip "Barney Google") and "the screaming meemies" (origin unknown).
Speaking Freely: A Guided Tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley
(Those who claim a homestead society is impossible because not everyone wants to live in the country should note that just the previous sentence is enough to give some of us the screaming meemies: we could just as readily say an urban society is impossible because not everyone wants to live in a city, or even in a high-tech world that ignores or even destroys nature.)
The 21st century and homesteading
Original: "Having the screaming meemies is like having the heebie-jeebies."
Writing clinic
Vitus' Dance), jimjams, screaming meemies, and uglies (one of the few diseases one takes pills to acquire rather than to cure).
Kickshaws