tizzyn.1
/ˈtɪzi/, U.S. /ˈtɪzi/ slang.
A sixpenny-piece. Also in combinations, as tizzy-snatcher n. Nautical slang an assistant paymaster.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > sixpence
tester1560
half-shilling1561
teston1577
mill sixpence1592
crinklepouch1593
sixpencea1616
testrila1616
piga1640
sice1660
Simon1699
sow's-baby1699
kick1725
cripple1785
grunter1785
tilbury1796
tizzy1804
tanner1811
bender1836
lord of the manor1839
snid1839
sprat1839
fiddler1846
sixpenny bit or piece1897
zac1898
sprasey1905
society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money
hoarder944
treasurerc1290
purse-bearerc1300
coffererc1330
pursera1450
boucherc1450
bowgerc1450
purse-masterc1450
thesaurer1473
expenditor1499
bowser1534
bursarya1552
bursar1587
stock-keeper1589
bag-bearer1598
bourser1685
sumptuary1789
money manager1874
investment manager1879
tizzy-snatcher1914
1804 J. Collins Scripscrapologia 156 So I gets a Tizzy for to let them alone.
1809 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1810) 13 119 That a tizzey be given out of the corporate funds in support of said Colonel Waddle.
1829 Sporting Mag. 24 163 The..rustics, who had ventured their few tisseys and bobs upon their Squire's famous horse.
1835 T. Hood Dead Robbery viii Just show me, if you can, A doctor's—if you want to earn a tizzy!
1901 Longman's Mag. Oct. 571 A man reads, at a ‘tizzy’, what he had not read when priced at twelve times the humble tanner.
1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xiii. 107 ‘Bloomin' tizzy-snatcher’ he muttered slipping the coins into his trousers pocket. He referred to the A.P. (Assistant Paymaster, who had mulched him of sixpence).
1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin v. 74 I cursed them for a couple of tizzy-snatchers.
1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 176 Tizzysnatcher, a disillusioned Nor' Easter's name for the Paymaster. The derivation is the Cockney ‘tizzy’ meaning sixpence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tizzyn.2
colloquial (originally U.S.).
A state of nervous excitement, agitation or worry, a ‘flap’; esp. in in a tizzy.
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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’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
tizzyadj.
/ˈtɪzi/, U.S. /ˈtɪzi/ colloquial.
Of a sound: high-pitched and buzzing or distorted.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [adjective] > buzz (of sounds)
bumbling1556
buzzing1635
tizzy1987
1987 New Scientist 10 Dec. 29/3 A very high pitched tizzy sound—like the noise which escapes to the outside world when loose-fitting personal stereo headphones are played too loudly.
Derivatives
ˈtizziness n.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [noun] > buzz
buzzing1495
beminga1522
fuzzing1676
bumble1834
Z-ing1852
zizz1860
zizzing1884
zinging1921
tizziness1976
1976 Gramophone Aug. 341/1 The strings occasionally show a hint of tizziness.
1986 N.Z. Listener 15 Feb. 55/1 But on the debit side is the variable recording quality which tends towards tizziness in the treble.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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