Etymology

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Italian tizzone
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The story

  1. Italian · borrowed fromtizzone“a live piece of coal or wood, a firebrand”
  2. English todayditsoon

A corruption of Italian tizzone (“a live piece of coal or wood, a firebrand”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.