tizzy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tizzy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tizzy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tizzy n an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft" Synonym(s): dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flap
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tester \Tes"ter\, n. [For testern, teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF. teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See {Tester} a covering, and cf. {Testone}, {Testoon}.] An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to {tizzy}. Called also {teston}. --Shak.