tizzy
Slang.
a dither.
a nervous, excited, or distracted state.
British Obsolete. a sixpence.
Origin of tizzy
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How to use tizzy in a sentence
When the pandemic took hold of much of the world it sent industries and consumer habits into a tizzy.
‘Where there’s growth, there’s an influx of capital’: Dealmakers test shifting media norms in gaming | Seb Joseph | November 3, 2021 | DigidayThey sent paleontologists into a tizzy, who though the tracks belonged to a carnivorous dinosaur—a creature larger than any other predator of its time.
After 60 years, a mysterious Australian dinosaur just got downsized | Margo Milanowski | October 22, 2021 | Popular-ScienceMention of iOS 15 was only a footnote, but updates like Hide My Email and other privacy related features have advertisers in a tizzy as Apple continues its crackdown on data privacy.
Cheat Sheet: Why email marketers are calling Apple’s iOS 15 update ‘a proverbial nail in the coffin’ | Kimeko McCoy | September 15, 2021 | DigidayFacebook’s latest change in its mobile ads business has marketers in a tizzy but the reality is it may not be that bad — at least for most of them.
Cheat Sheet: What Facebook’s decision to nix Advanced Mobile Measurement means for marketers | Seb Joseph | August 6, 2021 | DigidayTesla CEO Elon Musk sent the cryptocurrency world into a tizzy this weekend with a series of tweets about Bitcoin and a lesser-known currency called Dogecoin.
The reality TV mogul bared her butt—and everything else, too—for Paper Magazine in a spread that sent Twitter into a tizzy.
I arrive at twelve-twenty-five and the secretaries are in a tizzy.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRight-wing conservatives were in a tizzy over Coca Cola's new ad.
The tizzy over the storyline was already whipped and then abated over in the U.K., where the episode aired months ago.
Was Downton Abbey’s Most Shocking Scene Ever Really That Shocking? | Kevin Fallon | January 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe suspension of 33 high schoolers for a homemade ‘twerking’ video has sent the Internet into a butt-thumping tizzy.
“But he lets tizzy keep with them the whole day,” said she, whispering.
The O'Conors of Castle Conor | Anthony Trollope"I dink dot boetry vos make me tizzy already," came from Hans, as he sat down on a nearby chair, his face growing suddenly pale.
The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle | Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur M. Winfield)I haven't a shilling but what comes through his fingers; an' drat the tizzy he'll gi' me till he knows the reason why.'
Uncle Silas | J. S. LeFanuWhy, look 'e here, my trump, its a farden more to the tizzy—that's what it is.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) | Augustus de MorganBut that little imp tizzy walked round deliberately, looked at my heels, and then walked back again.
The O'Conors of Castle Conor | Anthony Trollope
British Dictionary definitions for tizzy
/ (ˈtɪzɪ) /
informal a state of confusion, anxiety, or excitement: Also called: tizz, tiz-woz (ˈtɪzˌwɒz)
Origin of tizzy
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