Fetter vs Tetter - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between fetter and tetter

is that fetter is a chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural) while tetter is any of various pustular skin conditions.

As verbs the difference between fetter and tetter

is that fetter is to shackle or bind up with fetters while tetter is to affect with tetter .

fetter

English

(wikipedia fetter)

Noun

(en noun)

A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural) .

(figurative) Anything that restricts or restrains.

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, year=1675 , author=John Dryden , title=Aureng-zebe , section=Prologue citation , passage=Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.}}

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, year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=6 citation , passage=He looks upon study as an odious' ' fetter ; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.}}

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, year=1910 , year_published=2012 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Erwin Rosen , title=In the Foreign Legion , chapter=Prolog citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters , and I fought a hard fight for a new career … }}

Synonyms

(chains on legs) * leg irons

Hyponyms

(chain binding generally) * handcuff, handcuffs * leg irons * manacle, manacles * shackle, shackles

Verb

(en verb)

To shackle or bind up with fetters

To restrain or impede; to hamper.

Derived terms

* unfetter

Hyponyms

* handcuff * manacle * shackle

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!