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plural tizzies
: a highly excited and distracted state of mind
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Examples of tizzy in a Sentence
She's always getting in a tizzy over minor things.
all in a tizzy because she can't find her car keys
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Owner Deepak Aggarwal is the same guy behind Berkeley’s East Bay Spice Company, which caused a tizzy among cocktail aficionados for its cutting-edge concoctions.
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
Ella Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter, sent conservatives into a tizzy with her outfit at the DNC: a sleeveless Helmut Lang top, nameplate necklace, and the Harris-Walz camo hat.
—Them, 9 Oct. 2024
There could be another geopolitical conflict that could send the markets into a tizzy.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
A certain corner of the internet also flew into a tizzy when it was unearthed, in 2021, that Dumaplin had contributed—about $1,000 total from 2016 to 2019—to Donald J. Trump for President Inc. and the Make America Great Again Committee.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 23 July 2024
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Word History
Etymology
origin unknown
First Known Use
1935, in the meaning defined above
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“Tizzy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tizzy. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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