单词 | in a tizzy |
释义 | > as lemmasin a tizzy A state of nervous excitement, agitation or worry, a ‘flap’; esp. in in a tizzy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [noun] fever1340 motiona1398 quotidian?a1439 rufflea1535 commotion1581 fret1582 hurry1600 puddering1603 tumultuousnessa1617 trepidation1625 feverishness1638 boilingc1660 fermentationc1660 tumult1663 ferment1672 stickle1681 fuss1705 whirl1707 flurry1710 sweat1715 fluster1728 pucker1740 flutter1741 flustration1747 flutteration1753 tremor1753 swithera1768 twitteration1775 state1781 stew1806 scrow1808 tumultuating1815 flurrification1822 tew1825 purr1842 pirr1856 tête montée1859 go1866 faff1874 poultry flutter1876 palaver1878 thirl1879 razzle-dazzle1885 nervism1887 flurry-scurry1888 fikiness1889 foment1889 dither1891 swivet1892 flusterment1895 tither1896 overwroughtness1923 mania1925 stumer1932 tizzy1935 two and eight1938 snit1939 tizz1953 tiswas1960 wahala1966 1935 Amer. Speech 10 192/1 The tizzy in which a huge wedding kept society columnists for weeks. 1938 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Oct. 14/2 Maybe it's better for the future of the race to live from daze to daze in a perpetual tizzy like Alix. 1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After ii. iii. 170 Politics and the sun together always put me into a mad tizzy. 1958 N. Marsh Singing in Shrouds (1959) v. 83 Gets in a tizzy over details. 1967 Spectator 10 Nov. 582/3 John Whiting's play..about the tizzies of English gentlefolk involved in the Napoleonic invasion scare. 1974 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 14 Sept. 10/6 A small band of private fliers has had the RAAF base at Amberley in a tizzy. 1983 Daily Tel. 8 June 20/3 He hopes this mass production of original art may throw ‘into a state of total tizzy’ an art world where ‘more and more money is being made by less and less people’. < as lemmas |
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