Meaning of tizzic | Babel Free

Definitions

Nonstandard form of phthisic.

alt-of, nonstandard, uncountable, usually

Examples

“For sette ye case, there colde be made of physick A draughte as long, who wolde not beare his tizzic, Blotches, or blaines, and rot in veray bonés, Sooner than draine swiche potion all at onés ?”

“About a dozen big stages hung on to one machine. After a good deal of fuss we all got seated and moved slowly off, the engine wheezing as though she had the tizzic.”

“Robinson didn't like cats. She hated them. She said they gave you the tizzic.”

“I had forgotten how much my father hated cats, thinking his irritation at my childhood Persian was simply due to his habitual squeamishness, as the animal had tizzic, a perpetual cough caused by eating ground lizards.”

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