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better | tetter |

As verbs the difference between better and tetter

is that better is to improve while tetter is to affect with tetter .

As nouns the difference between better and tetter

is that better is an entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior or better can be while tetter is any of various pustular skin conditions.

As an adjective better

is (good).

As an adverb better

is .

better

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) better, bettre, betre, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(head)
  • (good)
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  • (well)
  • larger, greater
    • Derived terms
    * better dead than red * better half * better off * betterness * better part of * get better
    Related terms
    * best * better than nothing * better the devil you know

    Adverb

    (head)
  • * 1901 , ,
    • “I’ve had enough of cycling with you chaps. I can spend my Sundays better than in tormenting cats and quarrelling and fighting.”
  • More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
    • ten miles and better
    Derived terms
    * had better * 'd better
    Related terms
    * best

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To improve.
  • * Wordsworth
    • Love betters what is best.
  • * Thackeray
    • He thought to better his circumstances.
  • * Macaulay
    • the constant effort of every man to better himself
  • To become better; to improve.
    • (Carlyle)
  • To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
  • * Hooker
    • The works of nature do always aim at that which can not be bettered .
  • To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
  • * Milton
    • Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
  • (slang) Had better.
    • You better do that if you know what's good for you.
    Derived terms
    * betterer * betterment
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
    • He quickly found Ali his better in the ring.
  • * Hooker
    • Their betters would hardly be found.

    Derived terms

    * get the better of

    Etymology 2

    Alternate pronunciation of (bettor) or modern formation from the verb to (bet).

    Noun

    (en noun)

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    tetter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various pustular skin conditions.
  • *, II.3.2:
  • *:Angelus Politianus had a tetter in his nose continually running, fulsome in company, yet no man so eloquent and pleasing in his works.
  • *1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
  • *: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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To affect with tetter .
  • * 1603 , '', Act 1, Scene 5, 1998, Kathleen O. Irace (editor), ''The First Quarto of Hamlet , page 50,
    • And all my smooth body, barked and tettered over.
  • * 1987 , James L Calderwood, Shakespeare & the Denial of Death , page 134,
    • 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.
  • * 2009 , Adam Thorpe, Hodd , 2010, page 284,
    • 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!