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- [1] : 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
see also:
tester testone testoon tizzy teston
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
dither pother fuss flap
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
55 moby thesaurus words for "tizzy":
befuddlement, bewilderment, bother, botheration, chaos, cloud,
confusion, daze, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure,
disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorientation,
disturbance, dither, embarrassment, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster,
flusteration, flustration, flutter, fog, foofaraw, frenzy, fret,
fuddle, fuddlement, fume, fuss, haze, jumble, lather, maze, mess,
mist, muddle, muddlement, opposite, perplexity, perturbation,
pother, pucker, ruffle, shuffle, stew, sweat, swivet, twitter,
twitteration, unsettlement, upset
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