单词 | fretty |
释义 | frettyadj.1 1. Heraldry. ‘Covered with a number of narrow bars or sticks, usually eight, lying in the directions of the bend and bend-sinister, interlacing each other’ (Cussans). † Of a charge: Fretted or interlaced with. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [adjective] > other manners or types of subordinary plumettyc1460 fretty1562 billeté1572 flanched1688 flasqued1881 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > two bands intersecting fretty1562 fret1572 fretwork1864 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 158 b If there be mo then viii Peces, then shall it be blazed frette and neuer tell the pices. 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 36v This Cheuron may be borne frettie with an other. 1705 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 24 Nov. [He] bore for his Armes Or frettè gules, with a Besant on each joynt of ye Frettè. 1844 A. Page Suppl. Kirby's Suffolk Trav. 159 Willoughby: or; fretty, azure. 1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 118 Morville bears the Fretty fleurs-de-lis. ΚΠ 1603 J. Davies Sonn. Univ. Oxf. in Microscosmos sig. Nnv Oxford, ô I praise thy situation... Thy Bough-deckt-dainty Walkes,with Brooks beset Fretty, like Christall Knots, in mould of Iet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). frettyadj.2 Inclined to fret. Thesaurus » a. Of persons: Fretful; irritable. b. Of a sore: Inflamed, festering. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] fouleOE festereda1398 quitterya1398 quittorousa1398 festrya1400 purulent?a1425 suppurate?a1425 matterativec1487 mattereda1500 mattery1527 attery1535 sanious1562 festering1563 matterish1566 infestered1570 ulcerated1580 suppurated1583 sordid1597 corsie1605 fistulating1607 rankling1631 suppurable1634 rancorous1635 undercotted1636 undercotting1637 suppuratory1659 puriform1668 quittorish1668 suppurating1671 scandalous1676 suppurative1746 suppurant1799 gleety1822 puruloid1846 pyoid1846 colloid substance1849 peptic1884 pussy1888 maturable1889 fretty1894 1844 C. Dickens Let. ?15–16 Sept. (1977) IV. 194 O'Connell's speeches are the old thing: fretty, boastful, frothy. 1890 Life's Remorse II. xiii. 136 I have been rather fretty about it. 1894 Catholic News 16 June The book is a literary running sore, fretty, stenchsome and repulsive. 1895 R. Kipling in Pall Mall Gaz. 26 June 2/1 It is a curious thing that if you call his name aloud in public after an Englishman you make him hot and fretty. c. Of beer: characterized by fretting or secondary fermentation (see fret v.1 10, fretting n.1 2). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [adjective] > qualities strengthful1584 shire1721 deadish1742 entire1742 foxed1743 maltless1828 quarred1871 cocktail1888 fretty1897 light-struck1908 skunked1970 cask-conditioned1975 1897 W. J. Sykes Princ. & Pract. Brewing 382 Beers produced from such contaminated waters show a great tendency, especially marked in hot weather, to become ‘fretty’, go turbid, turn sour. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.11562adj.21844 |
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