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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈtɛtə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈtɛtɚ/ [General-American], /-ɾɚ/ [General-American] Forms: tetters [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛtə, -ɛtə(ɹ) 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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|teter}} Middle English teter, {{inh|en|ang|teter}} Old English teter, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*tetru}} Proto-West Germanic *tetru, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*tetruz}} Proto-Germanic *tetruz, {{der|en|ine-pro|*dedru-}} Proto-Indo-European *dedru-, {{der|en|ine-pro|*der-|t=to flay, split, crack}} Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, crack”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tetter (countable and uncountable, plural tetters)
  1. (now rare) Any of various pustular skin conditions. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Derived forms: honeycomb tetter, moist tetter, scaly tetter, tetterous Translations (skin condition): екзема (ekzema) [feminine] (Bulgarian), dartre [feminine] (French), vitiligo [feminine] (Latin), pāpaka (Maori), teter [masculine] (Old English), تمرهكی (temreği) (Ottoman Turkish)
    Sense id: en-tetter-en-noun-Qv9V5UZN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Old English translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 11 3 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 75 19 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 83 14 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Old English translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 88 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

Forms: tetters [plural]
Etymology: Corruption of potato. Head templates: {{en-noun}} tetter (plural tetters)
  1. (Regional Dixieland vernacular, obsolete) Potato, or sweet potato root. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-tetter-en-noun-tYMWZfGa
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈtɛtə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈtɛtɚ/ [General-American], /-ɾɚ/ [General-American] Forms: tetters [present, singular, third-person], tettering [participle, present], tettered [participle, past], tettered [past]
Rhymes: -ɛtə, -ɛtə(ɹ) 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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|teter}} Middle English teter, {{inh|en|ang|teter}} Old English teter, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*tetru}} Proto-West Germanic *tetru, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*tetruz}} Proto-Germanic *tetruz, {{der|en|ine-pro|*dedru-}} Proto-Indo-European *dedru-, {{der|en|ine-pro|*der-|t=to flay, split, crack}} Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, crack”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} tetter (third-person singular simple present tetters, present participle tettering, simple past and past participle tettered)
  1. To affect with tetter.
    Sense id: en-tetter-en-verb-SEGwXkGi
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb [Norwegian Bokmål]

Head templates: {{head|nb|verb form|head=}} tetter, {{nb-verb-form}} tetter
  1. present of tette Tags: form-of, present Form of: tette

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:",
          "text": "heal this tetter of pedagogism that bespreads him",
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          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:",
          "text": "Angelus Politianus had a tetter in his nose continually running, fulsome in company, yet no man so eloquent and pleasing in his works.",
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          "ref": "1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "A scabby tetter on their pelts will stick",
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          "ref": "1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:",
          "text": "She works at St. Veronica’s hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases—greensickness, tetter, kibes, purples, imposthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy.",
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          "ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:",
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          "ref": "1987, James L Calderwood, Shakespeare & the Denial of Death, page 134:",
          "text": "Most deaths are ugly, pathetic events, and Shakespeare must have seen his share of them in bodies tettered by the pox, made noseless by syphilis, or festering blackly from the plague.",
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          "text": "I bent down to touch him, for my revulsion had gone, and had been replaced by a great love and sorrow; and thus I wept upon his form, that was cold like a corpse's, its wasted brawn tettered all over with sores and encrustations that were not the botches and whelks of leprosy — though e'en then I would have embraced him, as St Hugh of Lincoln kissed many a leper for the good of his own spirit!",
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          "text": "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",
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          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:",
          "text": "Angelus Politianus had a tetter in his nose continually running, fulsome in company, yet no man so eloquent and pleasing in his works.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "A scabby tetter on their pelts will stick",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:",
          "text": "She works at St. Veronica’s hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases—greensickness, tetter, kibes, purples, imposthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various pustular skin conditions."
      ],
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        [
          "pustular",
          "pustular"
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        "(now rare) Any of various pustular skin conditions."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈtɛtə/",
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      "ipa": "/ˈtɛtɚ/",
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      "roman": "ekzema",
      "sense": "skin condition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "skin condition",
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      "word": "dartre"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "skin condition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vitiligo"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "skin condition",
      "word": "pāpaka"
    },
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      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "skin condition",
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      "word": "teter"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "temreği",
      "sense": "skin condition",
      "word": "تمرهكی"
    }
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  "word": "tetter"
}

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          "ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:",
          "text": "[…] And all my smooth body, barked and tettered over.",
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        {
          "ref": "1987, James L Calderwood, Shakespeare & the Denial of Death, page 134:",
          "text": "Most deaths are ugly, pathetic events, and Shakespeare must have seen his share of them in bodies tettered by the pox, made noseless by syphilis, or festering blackly from the plague.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Adam Thorpe, Hodd, published 2010, page 284:",
          "text": "I bent down to touch him, for my revulsion had gone, and had been replaced by a great love and sorrow; and thus I wept upon his form, that was cold like a corpse's, its wasted brawn tettered all over with sores and encrustations that were not the botches and whelks of leprosy — though e'en then I would have embraced him, as St Hugh of Lincoln kissed many a leper for the good of his own spirit!",
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        "To affect with tetter."
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  "etymology_text": "Corruption of potato.",
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          "ref": "1888, Charles Colcock Jones, Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast, Told in the Vernacular:",
          "text": "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",
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        },
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          "ref": "1895, John G. Williams, \"De Ole Plantation.\":",
          "text": "But mebbe you ax, is tetter wine(\"vine\") a bad ting? No, I say, tetter wine is a good ting. You cant hab tetter widout de tetter wine. Dat wha' tetter wine fur? To mek tetter. But dat tetter wine dat ent mek tetter, dats a bad tetter wine kase e barren tetter wine.",
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}

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