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

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

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

Argent, a cheveron gules, fretty or, between three delves or billets sable.

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

Their captain shouted his orders to them by name, and it is a curious thing that if you call his name aloud in public after an Englishman you make him hot and fretty.

From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Kipling, Rudyard

“She has been quite another creature since we have been at Poppleby—not at all fretty, and almost rosy.”

From The Carbonels by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)