Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tizzy"
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tizzy
n : an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there
was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: {dither}, {pother},
{fuss}, {flap}]
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