Green’s Dictionary of Slang

tizzy n.¹

a sixpence; also as adj., costing a sixpence.

a.1790		C. Dibdin ‘Here I Was my Good Masters’ in Collection of Songs I 73: To wherever you’re going I well know the spot, / And do you tip a tizzy, I’ll tip the long trot.
1801		C. Dibdin Yngr Song Smith 121: For ladies and gem’men no more than a tizzy, / And three-pence a-piece just for master and missey.
1817		Morn. Chron. 29 May 3/3: Battle Between the Wolf and Brummagem Brutus [...] Betting all Troy to a Tizzy on Wolf.
1821		J. Burrowes Life in St George’s Fields 15: Bill [...] tipt the barber a tizzy.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1838		R.S. Surtees Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 133: Hallo! my young brockley-sprout, are you here again?--now then for the tizzy you owe me.
1840		T. Haliburton Letter-bag of the Great Western (1873) 200: Never a one that didn’t tip his bob and a tizzy for the forty miles.
1846		Bell’s Life in Sydney 29 Aug. 2/5: The harridan reappeared and [...] tendered him another tissy.
1847		Australian 19 Nov. 3/5: Be that as it may, [...] a tizza, [...] was looked upon in the light of a sixpence.
1849		C. Kingsley Alton Locke (1850) 24: Down with the stumpy — a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.
1856		Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: Numismatics seem to afford an unbounded range for the exercise of slang [...] Why should shillings be universally baptised ‘Roberts?’—[...] or six-pences indiscriminately christened by the female title of ‘Tizzy?’.
1863		T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act IV: I go a tizzy. [Puts a stake on cards].
1866		Mansfield School-Life at Winchester College (1870) 121: Twopenn’orth of biscuits, or a ‘Tizzy tart.’.
1871		Westmoreland Gaz. 14 Oct. 2/4: Governors are improved [...] since the old days, for they tip you half a skiv now, instead of a cartwheel [...] I‘ll fork out a tizzy for you.
1881		Morn. Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld) 18 July 2/6: For our next coin in value [i.e. sixpence] twenty names are found [...] ‘Fyebuck,’ ‘half-hog,’ ‘kick,’ ‘lord of the manor,’ ‘pig,’ ‘pot,’ ‘say saltee,' ’sprat,’ ‘snid,’ ‘simon,’ ‘sow's baby,’ ’tanner,’ tester,’ and ‘tizzy’.
1887		J. Payn Glow-Worm Tales III 72: I am under obligations to Naggit to the extent of three bob and a tizzy.
1899		A. Binstead Houndsditch Day by Day 177: By this time another of ’em had skinned yer out o’ yer coat — another tizzy.
1906		E. Dyson Fact’ry ’Ands 165: Half ther ’ouses in town ’ud give er gooey iv that sort er billet rather ’n’ take on er lad with er tizzy’s worth iv grit in him.
1907		D. Stewart Shadows of the Night in Illus. Police News 31 Aug. 12/3: He’s a goin’ to the Waterman’s Arms [...] a tizzy (sixpence) to a brass button’.
1911		E. Dyson ‘The Fickle Dolly Hopgood’ in Benno and Some of the Push 63: Prelimery starts punctual et eight; prices two, one, ’n’ a tizzie.
1925		Western Mail (Perth) 28 May 21/1: [from Daily Mail, London] An omnibus conductor asked me if if I had six coppers for a tizzy [...] I have not heard that delightful word since I was a boy.
1935		Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks 11: Tizzy: Sixpence.
1940		M. Marples Public School Slang 120: MONEY: [...] 6d: tizzy.

In compounds

tizzy-snatcher (n.) [note RN./Army use: paymaster]

a miser, a greedy person.

1914

‘Bartimeus’ ‘The Tizzy-Snatcher’ in Naval Occasions 107: ‘Bloomin’ tizzy-snatcher,’ he muttered, slipping the coins into his trousers-pocket.