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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an excited state of agitation;
- Example: "he was in a dither"
- Example: "there was a terrible flap about the theft"
[syn: dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flap]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tizzy
    n 1: an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there
         was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: dither,
         pother, fuss, tizzy, flap]