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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Tizzy

(A). A sixpence. A variant of tester. In the reign of Henry VIII. a “testone” was a shilling, but only sixpence in the reign of Elizabeth. (French, teste, tête, the [monarch's] head.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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