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plural tizzies
(colloquial) A state of nervous excitement, confusion, or distress; a dither. quotations examples
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, 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
(UK, slang, archaic) A sixpence; a tester. quotations
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