tetter
Americannoun
noun
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a blister or pimple
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informal any of various skin eruptions, such as eczema
Etymology
Origin of tetter
before 900; Middle English; Old English teter; cognate with Sanskrit dadru kind of skin disease
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Bains put a hand on the taller boy’s hair and fingered it lightly, absently searching with her nails for tetter spots.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Had the spirit then so rife really prevailed, the map of America to-day might have been no less blotched with the morbid tetter of particularism than that of the Germany of sixty years ago.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall
Half the world breaks out with action; its performance is cutaneous, of the nature of tetter.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various
A valuable remedy for scrofula, and all scrofulous skin diseases, as tetter, herpes, leprosy, and the like; also a valuable alterative in all constitutional diseases.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
It appears to have been the scaly tetter, which they sometimes denominated psoriasis, at others lepra, a synonymous affection; but neither pustular nor vesicular.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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