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Tetter
Definitions
- 1 Any of various pustular skin conditions. archaic, countable, uncountable
"heal this tetter of pedagogism that bespreads him"
- 2 Potato, or sweet potato root. obsolete
"Buh Sparruh biggin fur brag, an eh say: "Me tetter, him heap bigger den any me see. Me farruh befo me blan plant tetter, an him tetter bigger ner de calf er me leg. Me kin beat me farruh raise tetter"
- 1 To affect with tetter.
"[…] And all my smooth body, barked and tettered over."
Etymology
From Middle English teter, from Old English teter, tetr, tetra, from Proto-West Germanic *tetru, from Proto-Germanic *tetruz, *tetruhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dedru-, from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, crack”).
From Middle English teter, from Old English teter, tetr, tetra, from Proto-West Germanic *tetru, from Proto-Germanic *tetruz, *tetruhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dedru-, from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, crack”).
Corruption of potato.
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