Definition of "hysteric"

hysteric

/hɪsˈtɛɹɪk/

adjective
comparative more hysteric, superlative most hysteric
1. (medicine) Hysterical; relating to hysteria.
  Quotations
  We also find gamblers of this type among some frigid hysteric women, who seem to treat gambling as they treat men, coldly and spongingly.
  1969, Edmund Bergler, Selected Papers of Edmund Bergler, 1933-1961, page 697
noun
plural hysterics
1. A hysterical person.
  Quotations
  “Which girl was it now?” he asks a second time. ¶ “Oh, you know, the hysteric,” Eleanor says, “the one who was parading her bazooms in your face.”
  1956, Norman Mailer, The Man Who Studied Yoga