tizzy
English
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editEtymology
editUnknown. American, 1935. Possibly related to tizzy (“sixpence coin”, slang), from tester (“sixpence coin”, slang).[1] Compare also dizzy.
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Noun
edittizzy (plural tizzies)
- (colloquial) A state of nervous excitement, confusion, or distress; a dither.
- to be in a tizzy
- (UK, slang, archaic) A sixpence; a tester.
- 1881, T. Lewis O. Davies, Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, A Supplementary English Glossary, page 630:
- Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.
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editexcitement, confusion
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editReferences
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “tizzy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.