tizzy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

tizzy
    n 1: an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there
         was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: {dither},
         {pother}, {fuss}, {tizzy}, {flap}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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