tizzy

plural tizzies · alternative tissy

1. colloquialA state of nervous excitement, confusion, or distress; a dither.

   to be in a tizzy

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   That Todd Evergreen. The reclusive, twenty-two-year-old, overnight billionaire whose very existence has put us all 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

   The Chatbots Are Here, and the Internet Industry Is in a Tizzy [title]

   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

2. UKarchaicslangA sixpence; a tester.

   Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.

   1881, T. Lewis O. Davies, Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, A Supplementary English Glossary, page 630

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   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."

   1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days