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Tettered vs Tattered - What's the difference?

tettered | tattered |

As verbs the difference between tettered and tattered

is that tettered is past tense of tetter while tattered is past tense of tatter.

As an adjective tattered is

rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged.

tettered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tetter)

    • 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    • I bent down to touch him, for my revulsion had gone, and had been replaced by a great love and sorrow; and thus I wept upon his form, that was cold like a corpse's, its wasted brawn tettered all over with sores and encrustations that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!

    tattered

    English

    Alternative forms

    * tottered

    Adjective

    (-)
  • rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged
  • * 1919 , :
    • The chattering, irrational brute of the subconscious clothes itself in the tattered garments of rationality and idealism.
  • dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
  • (obsolete) dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (tatter)

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