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▪ I. fretty, a.1|ˈfrɛtɪ|
Also fretté(e.
[ad. OFr. fretté, f. frete trellis-work: see fret n.1]
1. Her. ‘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.
1562Legh Armory 158 b, If there be mo then viii Peces, then shall it be blazed frette and neuer tell the pices. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 36 b, This Cheuron may be borne frettie with an other. 1705Hearne Collect. 24 Nov., [He] bore for his Armes Or frettè gules, with a Besant on each joynt of y⊇ Frettè. 1844Page Suppl. Suff. Trav. 159 Willoughby: or; fretty, azure. 1850A. Jameson Leg. Monast. Ord. (1863) 109 Morville bears the Fretty fleurs-de-lis.
absol. quasi-n.1687Long. Gaz. No. 2217/4 The following Coats of Arms..viz. A Frettee of Six Barrs, and a Party-par⁓pale Indented Quarter'd Coat upon the one Pair. 1869W. S Ellis Antiq. Her. x. 236 The Lord Audley as a special favour..allowed four of his esquires to bear his own fretty in their coat armour.
†2. transf.
a1618J. Davies Sonnet Oxf. Univ. 16 Oxford, o I praise thy situation..Thy Bough-deckt-dainty Walkes,with Brooks beset Fretty, like Christall Knots, in mould of Iet.
▪ II. fretty, a.2|ˈfrɛtɪ|
[f. fret v.1 + -y1.]
Inclined to fret. a. Of persons: Fretful; irritable. b. Of a sore: Inflamed, festering.
1844Dickens Let. to Forster in Forster Life (1873) II. 110 O'Connell's speeches are the old thing: fretty, boastful, frothy. 1890Life's Remorse II. xiii. 136 I have been rather fretty about it. 1894Catholic News 16 June, The book is a literary running sore, fretty, stenchsome and repulsive. 1895R. Kipling in Pall Mall G. 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 vbl. n.1 2).
1897W. 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. |