Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Adorned with fretwork.
- In heraldry, covered with a grating composed of narrow pieces, as bendlets, fillets, etc., crossing one another and interlacing. Also
fretté .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Adorned with fretwork.
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- adjective
Peevish , inclined to fret,agitated , worrying. - adjective colloquial
Inflamed , like asore . - adjective heraldry Covered with a
lattice -like pattern of diagonallyinterlaced bendlets and bendletssinister .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then again, I'm fretty biased towards Frazetta, so I can really get into an artist that digs him too.
Judging (Marvel’s January) Books By Their Covers | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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But I've said so much to him, sometimes he'd get fretty, and he'd just cut them off just because I
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When the baby is not thriving and gaining steadily in weight, or is fretty and cries a good deal, and does not rest and sleep peacefully, something, of course, is wrong.
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Ecclesiastical vestments were often trimmed with heavy gold fringe, knotted "fretty wise," and the embroideries were further enriched with jewels and small plaques of enamel.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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Therefore, when next June comes along and you yearn for the early filberts, do not be fretty.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919 Various
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A baby with indigestion is a colicky, fretty, sick baby.
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A swan erm. swimming, charged on the breast with an estoile sa. wings expanded or, fretty, raguly az.
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'Gets on as best she can with Oliver,' said Gillman, 'though that fretty at times 'tis as well for him she's polled.
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They are sallow, fretty, plain little things, but I'm conscientiously liking them as hard as ever I can.
Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918
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Even as he spoke, a toddling youngster from an overcrowded seat at the front end of the car came adventuring along the aisle after the swaying, clutching manner of tired, fretty children on trains.
The Indiscreet Letter Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
hernesheir commented on the word fretty
The definitions make me think of the interlaced upper crust of a pie, or those cheap panels of skirting that grace the bottom of mobile homes. I prefer the former.
October 5, 2011