fretty

¹ American  

[fret-ee] / ˈfrɛt i /

adjective

frettier, frettiest

1. fretful; irritable; peevish.

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fretty ² American  

[fret-ee] / ˈfrɛt i /

adjective

Heraldry.

1. covered with criss-crossed and interlacing diagonal strips.

   argent, fretty sable.

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Etymology

Origin of fretty¹

First recorded in 1835–45; fret ¹ + -y ¹

Origin of fretty²

1555–65; < Middle French frette, derivative of frete trelliswork. See fret ², -ee

Example Sentences

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fretty

Miss Lizzy, she gets fretty, but she still the same Miss Lizzy.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

And, like some Yolande of the days of yore, My long and amply folded skirts I wear, O'er-painted with the blazon that I bear —Gules, a fess azure; purpure, fretty, or.

From A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Ellen Marriage

They are sallow, fretty, plain little things, but I'm conscientiously liking them as hard as ever I can.

From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

From Hithe to Bulverthithe, fretty man an’ petty maid, ailin’ woman an’ wailin’ child, they took the advantage of the change in the thin airs just about as soon as the Pharisees flitted.

From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Arthur Rackham

Trussel bore “Silver fretty gules, the joints bezanty.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various