Sit and cry -- he's suffering these? (9)
I believe the answer is:
hysterics
'sit and cry he's suffering these?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.
'sit and cry he's suffering' is the wordplay.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'suffering' indicates anagramming the letters.
'cry'+'hes'='cryhes'
'sit' after 'cryhes' is 'cryhessit'.
'cryhessit' with letters rearranged gives 'HYSTERICS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hysterics that I've seen before include "Uncontrollable laughter" , "great glee" , "Wild laughter" , "seizure" , "Wildly emotional behaviour" .)