Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also fizzy-wizzy) champagne.

1843		R.S. Surtees Handley Cross (1854) 416: Away the bowl to Greenwich—best room, dinner two guineas a ’ead, iced fizzey.
1845		R.S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall I 150: Well, I'd a deal rayther walk [...] with sich a sweet hen-angel as you, nor go and stuff wenison and fizzy with my Lord Dukeship.
1851		R.S. Surtees Young Tom Hall (1926) 103: Those Daniel Lamberts upstairs want a fresh bottle of fizzey.
1904		O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 28: I went to work and got some o’ the fizzy-wizzy [...] You can all look at the stamp on the cork and see that it’s genooine French shampain.
1904		Sun. Times (Perth) 28 Feb. 8/3: He [...] once gave a kids’ party where there was everything [...] from champagne to sausage rolls. Kids liked the ‘fizzy stuff,’ and most of ’em got tight on it.
1920		(con. WWI) Dos Passos One Man’s Initiation: 1917 (1969) 140: I’ll go round to the copé and get a bottle of fizzy. We’ll drink to peace or war, as you like.
1921		Dos Passos Three Soldiers 75: Come over and have a drink. We’re going to have some fizzy.
1930		R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 114: Just happened along as the fizzy stuff was being served.

2. (Aus.) beer.

1916

All Abaht It Nov. 11: Then there’s our long ’un, Alfy J., / Who’s fond of Bass’s fizzy.

3. (Aus.) a sixpence.

1919

Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] Sixpence is a ‘sprat,’ ‘zack,’ ‘tanner,’ ‘fizzy,’ ‘bender,’ ‘cripple’’.

4. (UK black) a handgun [play on the sound of a champagne cork and pop v.¹ (1b)].

2022

Billy Billions ‘Tizzy’ 🎵 It was me?in the back of the ride spitting Luger nines all?out?of?the glizzy [...] two hands on the fizzy.