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Definition of Tizzies
1. tizzy [n] - See also: tizzy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tizzies
Literary usage of Tizzies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"God save the King, Who freights his tars with tizzies. AS HIS OWN LIFE HE LOVED
HER. (Cobb.) A SOLDIER to his own fire-side His every hope inspiring. ..."
2. The Songs of Charles Dibdin: Chronologically Arranged, with Notes by Charles Dibdin, George Hogarth (1848)
""Where dang'rous shoals and rocks abound, And where the billet whizzes, Our
sailors storms and shipwrecks found And ev'ry thing but tizzies. ..."
3. Out of Town by Francis Cowley Burnand (1870)
"Bobs = two tizzies = 10 Groschen = One shilling = i fr. 20 cts. Benders = one
Tizzy = 5 Groschen = One sixpence = 52TV cts. Kicks = one Joey = 3^ Groschen ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... (who said he was as dizzy аз a couple of tizzies ") had carried for her, trod
lightly and firmly across the frail bridge, and in another second was ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"Here clearly was some mushroom usurper who had bought ont the old simple hospitable
family, neglected its ancient servants, left them to earn tizzies by ..."
6. Representative British Dramas: Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"Hang peddling with tizzies — half a crown. DALTON. Five. SAM. Ten. [Moss looks
at SAM'S hand, and signals to DALTON] Moss. Oh! dear, what a boy it is! ..."
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