tetter
/ˈtɛtɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To affect with tetter.
Example Sentences
- "heal this tetter of pedagogism that bespreads him"
- "Angelus Politianus had a tetter in his nose continually running, fulsome in company, yet no man so eloquent and pleasing in his works."
- "A scabby tetter on their pelts will stick"
- "She works at St. Veronica’s hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases—greensickness, tetter, kibes, purples, imposthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy."
- "[…] And all my smooth body, barked and tettered over."
- "Most deaths are ugly, pathetic events, and Shakespeare must have seen his share of them in bodies tettered by the pox, made noseless by syphilis, or festering blackly from the plague."
Etymology
From Middle English teter, from Old English teter, tetr, tetra, from Proto-West Germanic *tetru, from Proto-Germanic *tetruz, *tetruhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dedru-, from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, crack”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɛtɚ/
- British English: /ˈtɛtə/