Tetter vs Vetter - What's the difference?
tetter | vetter |
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.
To affect with tetter .
* 1603 , '', Act 1, Scene 5, 1998, Kathleen O. Irace (editor), ''The First Quarto of Hamlet ,
* 1987 , James L Calderwood, Shakespeare & the Denial of Death ,
* 2009 , Adam Thorpe, Hodd , 2010,
As nouns the difference between tetter and vetter
is that tetter is any of various pustular skin conditions while vetter is agent noun]] of [[vet#verb|vet; one who vets.As a verb tetter
is to affect with tetter .tetter
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)page 50,
- And all my smooth body, barked and tettered over.
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.
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- I bent down to touch him, for my revulsion had gone, and had been replaced by a great love and sorrow; and thus I wept upon his form, that was cold like a corpse's, its wasted brawn tettered all over with sores and encrustations that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!
