tizzic

plural tizzics

1. nonstandarduncountableusuallyNonstandard form of phthisic.

   Robinson didn't like cats. She hated them. She said they gave you the tizzic.

   1977, Bim - Volume 2, page 79

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   For sette ye case, there colde be made of physick A draughte as long, who wolde not beare his tizzic, Blotches, or blaines, and rot in veray bonés, Sooner than draine swiche potion all at onés ?

   1860, Thornton Leigh Hunt, The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt, page 172

   About a dozen big stages hung on to one machine. After a good deal of fuss we all got seated and moved slowly off, the engine wheezing as though she had the tizzic.

   1874, John Stevens, Cabot Abbott, David Crockett: His Life and Adventures, page 268

   I had forgotten how much my father hated cats, thinking his irritation at my childhood Persian was simply due to his habitual squeamishness, as the animal had tizzic, a perpetual cough caused by eating ground lizards.

   2007, Sandra Martin, The First Man in My Life: Daughters Write about Their Fathers, →ISBN