What is a tizzy?

What is a tizzy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A state of nervous excitement, confusion, or distress; a dither.
  2. (Britain, slang, archaic) A sixpence; a tester.
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Oh yes, all the cognoscenti are clutching their pearls and the anti-choice groups are running their own ads and everybody's in a tizzy.
You know, it's time to throw out this archaic notion of age 30 as old or beginning middle age or whatever it is that gets people in such a tizzy.
Not only have they stirred up the pop scene but they've thrown an overly serious world of classical music into a tizzy.
India's textile industry is in a tizzy as new duties on bed linens and other textile products will hurt textile majors with considerable clout.
Count Thibault and his servant Andre are in a tizzy after being transported from the 12 th century to modern-day Chicago.
For six hours, Venus casts its shadow across the solar surface in a celestial display that has astronomers in a tizzy.

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