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Definitions for Fretter

[1] to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
[2] to cause corrosion; gnaw into something: acids that fret at the strongest metals.
[3] to make a way by gnawing, corrosion, wearing away, etc.: The river frets at its banks until a new channel is formed.
[4] to become eaten, worn, or corroded (often followed by away ): Limestone slowly frets away under pounding by the wind and rain.
[5] to move in agitation or commotion, as water: water fretting over the stones of a brook.
[6] to torment; irritate, annoy, or vex: You mustn't fret yourself about that.
[7] to wear away or consume by gnawing, friction, rust, corrosives, etc.: the ocean fretting its shores.
[8] to form or make by wearing away a substance: The river had fretted an underground passage.
[9] to agitate (water): Strong winds were fretting the channel.
[10] an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.
[11] erosion; corrosion; gnawing.
[12] a worn or eroded place.
[13] to distress or be distressed; worry
[14] to rub or wear away
[15] to irritate or be irritated; feel or give annoyance or vexation
[16] to eat away or be eaten away by chemical action; corrode
[17] (intr) (of a road surface) to become loose so that potholes develop; scab
[18] to agitate (water) or (of water) to be agitated
[19] (tr) to make by wearing away; erode
[20] a state of irritation or anxiety
[21] the result of fretting; corrosion
[22] a hole or channel caused by fretting
[23] a repetitive geometrical figure, esp one used as an ornamental border
[24] such a pattern made in relief and with numerous small openings; fretwork
[25] heraldry a charge on a shield consisting of a mascle crossed by a saltire
[26] (tr) to ornament with fret or fretwork
[27] any of several small metal bars set across the fingerboard of a musical instrument of the lute, guitar, or viol family at various points along its length so as to produce the desired notes when the strings are stopped by the fingers
[28] short for sea fret

Words related to Fretter

fretdoubter, complainant, complainer, quibbler, caviler, censor, nitpicker, carper, zapper, muckraker, disparager, maligner, slanderer, worrier, nagger, faultfinder, niggler, criticizer, aristarch, censurer

Words nearby Fretter

fretfresnel biprism, fresnel lens, fresnel mirrors, fresno, fress, fret, fret saw, fretboard, fretful, fretted, fretting

Origin of Fretter

1before 900; Middle English freten, Old English fretan to eat up, consume; cognate with Old Saxon fretan, Gothic fraitan, Old High German frezzan (German fressen )

Other words from Fretter

fret·ter , noun

Word origin for Fretter

C16: of unknown origin

Synonyms for Fretter

attacker, carper, caviler, censor, complainant, complainer, defamer, disparager, doubter, faultfinder, maligner, muckraker, nagger, nitpicker, quibbler, scolder, slanderer, vilifier, worrier, zapper, aristarch, backseat driver, belittler, blamer, censurer, criticizer, disapprover, disputer, hypercritic, mud-slinger, nit-picker, panner, reviler, sidewalk superintendent