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

Party per pale indented, ermine and sable, a cheveron gules, fretty or.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

Gets on as best she can with Oliver," said Gillman, "though that fretty at times tis as well for him she's polled.

From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Farjeon, Eleanor

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

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

Oh, well, we mustn't mind if she is notional and kind of wearing; she's been sick, and it will take time to get rid of her fretty ways.

From Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair by Alcott, Louisa May