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单词 tetter
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tettern.

Brit. /ˈtɛtə/, U.S. /ˈtɛdər/
Forms: Old English tetr, Old English–1500s teter, Middle English tetre, Middle English tetyr, tetere, 1500s–1600s tetar, 1500s–1700s tettar, (1600s teater, 1800s dialect titter), 1500s– tetter.
Etymology: Old English teter < Old Germanic *tetru-, pre-Germanic *dedru-, Sanskrit dadru a kind of cutaneous disease, < dṝ to crack; compare Lithuanian dedervine tetter. The simple word is not preserved elsewhere in Germanic, but compare Old High German zitaroh ( < *titruha), Middle High German ziteroch, Bavarian dialect zitt(e)roch, -en, Tyrol zittrich; also modern German zittermal, zitterflechte, Swiss zitterabel tetter, ringworm.
1. A general term for any pustular herpetiform eruption of the skin, as eczema, herpes, impetigo, ringworm, etc. crusted tetter, pustular tetter, running tetter, impetigo; eating tetter., lupus; honeycomb tetter., favus; humid tetter or moist tetter., eczema; milky tetter., milk-blotch; scaly tetter., psoriasis.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > tetter
tettera700
rainbow rash1806
rainbow worm1817
a700 Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.) 128 Basis, teter.
a700 Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.) 502 Inpetigo, tetr.
a700 Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.) 791 Papula vel pustula, spryng vel tetr.
c725 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 128 Balsis, teter.
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xi. 71 Se ðonne hæfð teter on his lichoman se hæfð on his mode gitsunga.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 150 Heo ofgenimð þone scruf & þone teter.
a1050 Liber Scintill. xxv. 99 Teter witodlice hæfð on lichaman.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 61 Þere beeþ hoote bathes, þat wascheþ of teteres, oþer sores and scabbes.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 791/14 Hec serpedo,..a tetere.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health xxviii. 45 For a tettar or a ring worme a little mustarde layde vpon it within fewe dayes will cure it.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 71 All my smoothe body, barked, and tetterd ouer.
1622 G. Hakewill King David's Vow (new ed.) viii. 284 It is good..to kill a Tetter before it spread to a Ringworme.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 66 The true Oil of Cedar is admirable for curing Tetters.
1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 125 A leprous tetter with corrosive tooth [would] Creep o'er my skin, and fasten on my flesh.
figurative.1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 24 What a universal tetter of impurity had invenom'd every part, order, and degree of the Church.1647 J. Cleveland Char. London-diurnall 8 I have not inke enough to cure all the Tetters and Ring-worms of the State.1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer i. i The mercenary itch in an old woman; 'tis the very tetter of that sex.?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. vii. 67 This Tetter, or spreading Ringworm, cannot be cured,..without some Gall in the Ink.1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 145 In ran the airn by chance, And lat out baith the wind and matter, That lang had lodgit in that tetter.
2. A cutaneous disease in animals, esp. horses.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tetter for horse, herpeta.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 227 The Tettar commeth vnto many dogs naturally, or by kind, or by age.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (1623) 119 To heale any Tetter, or drie scabbe in Goates.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4400/4 A black Gelding..a Tetter on the off Breast.
1794 Sporting Mag. 3 156 A cure for warts or tetters on horses.
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Tetter, called by farriers the flying-worm, or ring-worm. It runs up and down the skin in different directions, from whence it receives its name.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tetterv.

Etymology: < tetter n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtetter.
rare.
1. transitive. To affect with, or as with, a tetter. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > afflict with or cause a skin disorder [verb (transitive)] > tetter
tettera1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 83 So shall my Lungs Coine words..against those Meazels Which we disdaine should Tetter vs. View more context for this quotation
2. intransitive. To crack, to disintegrate.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > crack, split, or cleave
chinea700
to-chinec725
cleavea1225
to-cleavec1275
rivec1330
to-slentc1380
to-sundera1393
cracka1400
rifta1400
chapc1420
crevec1450
break1486
slave?1523
chink1552
chop1576
coame1577
cone1584
slat1607
cleft1610
splita1625
checka1642
chicka1642
flaw1648
shale1712
vent1721
spalt1731
star1842
seam1880
tetter1911
1911 J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 30 My mind began to carp and tetter.
1967 T. Keneally Bring Larks ii. 16 In dutiful vegetable gardens, the leaves of carrots and turnips had tettered and split, shot full of holes by antipodean summer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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