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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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