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▪ I. tizzy1 slang.|ˈtɪzɪ|
Also tizzey, tissey.
[Origin obscure.]
A sixpenny-piece. Also Comb., as tizzy-snatcher Naut. slang, an assistant paymaster.
1804J. Collins Scripscrap. 156 So I gets a Tizzy for to let them alone. 1809in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. XIII. 119 That a tizzey be given out of the corporate funds in support of said Colonel Waddle. 1829Sporting Mag. XXIV. 163 The..rustics, who had ventured their few tisseys and bobs upon their Squire's famous horse. 1835Hood Dead Robbery viii, Just show me, if you can, A doctor's—if you want to earn a tizzy! 1901Longm. 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. 1946J. Irving Royal Navalese 176 Tizzysnatcher, a disillusioned Nor' Easter's name for the Paymaster. The derivation is the Cockney ‘tizzy’ meaning sixpence.
▪ II. tizzy2 colloq. (orig. U.S.).
[Of uncertain origin.]
A state of nervous excitement, agitation or worry, a ‘flap’; esp. in phr. in a tizzy.
1935Amer. Speech X. 192/1 The tizzy in which a huge wedding kept society columnists for weeks. 1938Ladies' 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. 1952A. Wilson Hemlock & After ii. iii. 170 Politics and the sun together always put me into a mad tizzy. 1958N. Marsh Singing in Shrouds (1959) v. 83 Gets in a tizzy over details. 1967Spectator 10 Nov. 582/3 John Whiting's play..about the tizzies of English gentlefolk involved in the Napoleonic invasion scare. 1974Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 14 Sept. 10/6 A small band of private fliers has had the RAAF base at Amberley in a tizzy. 1983Daily 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’.
▪ III. tizzy, a. colloq.|ˈtɪzɪ|
[f. echoic tizz + -y1.]
Of a sound: high-pitched and buzzing or distorted. So ˈtizziness n.
1976Gramophone Aug. 341/1 The strings occasionally show a hint of tizziness. 1986N.Z. Listener 15 Feb. 55/1 But on the debit side is the variable recording quality which tends towards tizziness in the treble. 1987New 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. |