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Definition of Tetter
1. n. A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes.
2. v. t. To affect with tetter.
Definition of Tetter
1. Noun. (rare) Any of various pustular skin conditions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tetter
1. a skin disease [n -S]
Medical Definition of Tetter
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetter
Literary usage of Tetter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular romances of the west of England; or, The drolls, traditions, and by Robert Hunt (1881)
"God bless the flesh and preserve the bone ; Perish, thou tetter, and be thou gone.
... Thus the verses are continued until tetter, having " no brother," is ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"tetter. A humour accompanied with redness and itching. —B. The word tetter was
used in the sense of itching. It. pizzicare, to itch and smart, to tetter ..."
3. Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast, Told in the Vernacular by Charles Colcock Jones (1888)
"Me yent bin bring no tetter wid me case me no want fur mek me fren feel bad. ...
dem all bent pon mek um show eh tetter, eh say: " Well, wait pon top me. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"The nipples were washed with this every time after taking the child from the
breast.—Jo-urn, dc Mcd., <fc. Sept. 1630. 21. Cure for tetter. ..."
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