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tissy

tissy is the alternative form of tizzy.

Meaning of tizzy

Noun

tizzy (plural tizzies)

  1. (colloquial) A state of nervous excitement, confusion, or distress; a dither.
    • to be in a tizzy
  2. (UK, archaic, slang) A sixpence; a tester.
    • 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

Forms of tissy

pluraltissies

Questions about tissy

What is tissy the alternative form of?
Tissy is the alternative form of tizzy.

Words near tissy in the dictionary

  1. tissues
  2. tissuey
  3. tissuing
  4. tissular
  5. tisswood
  6. tissy
  7. Tissyman
  8. TIST
  9. Tiswadi
  10. tiswas
  11. tiswin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tissy (page history and authors); tizzy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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