tetter

American  

[tet-er] / ˈtɛt ər /

noun

1. (not in technical use) any of various eruptive skin diseases, as herpes, eczema, and impetigo.

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tetter British  

/ ˈtɛtə /

noun

1. a blister or pimple

2. informal any of various skin eruptions, such as eczema

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Etymology

Origin of tetter

before 900; Middle English; Old English teter; cognate with Sanskrit dadru kind of skin disease

Example Sentences

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

"So shall my lungs Coin words till their decay against those measles, Which we disdain should tetter us, yet sought The very way to catch them."

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman

Thus the verses are continued until tetter having “no brother” is ordered to be gone.—R.

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

Skin: Rough, dry; dry, bran-like tetter in rings; groups of small vesicles, smarting and itching, oozing a yellowish-brown lymph, which soon turns into a scurf, new vesicles appearing beneath.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

His cheeks were pallid and lank, his eyes sunken, his forehead overshadowed by coarse straggling hairs, his teeth large and irregular, though sound and brilliantly white, and his chin discoloured by a tetter.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden