slang. Also tizzey, tissey. [Origin obscure.] A sixpenny-piece.
1804. J. Collins, Scripscrap., 156. So I gets a Tizzy for to let them alone.
1809. in Spirit Pub. Jrnls., XIII. 119. That a tizzey be given out of the corporate funds in support of said Colonel Waddle.
1829. Sporting Mag., XXIV. 163. The … rustics, who had ventured their few tisseys and bobs upon their Squire’s famous horse.
1835. Hood, Dead Robbery, viii. Just show me, if you can, A doctor’s—if you want to earn a tizzy!
1901. Longm. Mag., Oct., 571. A man reads, at ‘tizzy,’ what he had not read when priced at twelve times the humble tanner.
