tizzy adj.2
1. showily or flashily overdressed.
Sun (Sydney) 3 Dec. 7/5: [advert] These styles were created especially for you larger sizes ... not tizzy, and not too matronly - a perfect happy medium! | ||
Argus (Melbourne) 20 Aug. 9/1: The best sellers in a display are as often as not the tizziest. | ||
Aus. Speaks. | ||
Western Mail (Perth) 2 Dec. 27/5: French flowers would be suitable but they are too expensive, while cheap artificial flowers look tizzy. |
2. of a person, ostentatious, showy, vulgar.
DSUE (8th edn) 1241/1: since ca. 1945. |
3. of an object, flashy but cheaply manufactured.
Clean Straw for Nothing (1971) 20: I was also going to say I send you lots of presents. Nice things, too. Nothing tizzy [AND]. |