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
In the fever or the berebarde," "Berbi, O.F., chancre, dartre; a boil, bubo, or tetter, commonly attendant upon pestilent fever.
From Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 by Various
The patients had both been subject to rheumatism; and, in one of them, this had been supplanted by an eruption Of tetter: on the disappearance of which last the globus appeared.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
It seemed like a pathological chart presenting a face broken out with an unseemly tetter.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall
This has been highly recommended to me, as a remedy for tetter on the hands, but I have never seen it tried.
From Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers by Lea, Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott)
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