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English

Noun

A state of nervous excitement or confusion; a dither.

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]

WordNet 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]

Moby Dictionary
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