A state of nervous excitement, confusion, or agitation; being in a flustered or worried mood.
Origin uncertain, possibly from Cockney rhyming slang 'tizzy-toff' or related to 'tizzy' as an onomatopoeia for nervous energy; became popular in British English in the early 20th century.
Nobody's totally sure where 'tizzy' comes from, which makes it perfect British slang—like it emerged from the social chaos of early 1900s London and just stuck around because it perfectly captures that specific British flavor of panicked fluster.
Tizzy acquired feminized/emotional connotations in mid-20th-century slang, often used to mock women's emotional states as excessive or irrational.
Use neutrally to describe agitation without gendered inflection. Avoid pairing with female identifiers.
["uproar","agitation","frenzy"]
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