Green’s Dictionary of Slang

troubles, worries, suffering.

1901		M. Wolfenstein Idyls of Gass viii 143: I have other Zores (troubles) [OED].
1914		M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 166: My tzuris if he does, Mawruss.
c.1926		L. da Costa Kosher Kitty’s Kids II.i: There’s trouble — great tsorris.
1951		S. Levenson Meet the Folks 110: tsorres Something you get from children.
1959		H. Ellison ‘Have Coolth’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 128: Get creamed once by a down chick and you’ve had it [...] You got tsoriss.
1967		L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 72: Alotta tsuris I have, mine friend.
1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS 213: Tsooris A misfortune.
1975		N.Y. Times Book Rev. 16 Mar. 31: She has had a bad back, a bad psychoanalytic trip and miscellaneous medical tsouris.
2004		J. Ellroy ‘Jungletown Jihad’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 342: He said he was depressed, he feared his death, tsuris like that.
2010		J. Ellroy Hilliker Curse 28: All that tsuris got me four peremptory fucks.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 28: Liz tsuris and money tsuris aside.