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Freet

//fɹiːt// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    A superstitious notion or belief with respect to any action or event as a good or a bad omen; a superstition.

    "If the old “freet” be true “ that those who fall when at the handspake aneath the corpse, will soon be the corpse themsell," there would soon be a good few corspes; for at these "druken" concerns, the bearers are falling some of them every now and then."

  2. 2
    A superstitious rite, observance, wont, or practice.

    "Oh, sister Ellen, sister sweet, Come with me to the hill I pray, And I will prove that blessed freet!"

  3. 3
    A charm.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English frete (“superstition”), from Old Norse frétt (“news, intelligence, inquiry, inquiry about the future”), from Proto-Germanic *frihtiz (“news, report, message, question, prophecy”), related to Icelandic frétt (“news”), Icelandic frétta (“to review”), Danish and Norwegian fritte (“to question, interrogate”), English frain (“to question”). More at frain.

Etymology 2

Americanized form of German Fried.

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