n. surliness and bad temper resulting from being confined with someone else in a small, isolated cabin.
- 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."