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English
Etymology
Unknown. American, 1935. Possibly related to tizzy (“sixpence coin”, slang), from tester (“sixpence coin”, slang).[1] Compare also dizzy.
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tizzy (plural tizzies)
- (colloquial) A state of nervous excitement, confusion, or distress; a dither.
- to be in a tizzy
2014, The Creator of Rich Kids of Instagram, Maya Sloan, “Prologue”, in Rich Kids of Instagram, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 1:That Todd Evergreen. The reclusive, twenty-two-year-old, overnight billionaire whose very existence has put us all in a tizzy.
2023 March 8, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Nico Grant, “The Chatbots Are Here, and the Internet Industry Is in a Tizzy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:The Chatbots Are Here, and the Internet Industry Is 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.
1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:Tadpole holds out, but between threats and cajoleries at length sells half for one shilling and sixpence — about a fifth of its fair market value; however, he is glad to realize anything, and, as he wisely remarks, "Wanderer mayn't win, and the tizzy is safe anyhow."
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