Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
tetter (countable and uncountable, plural tetters)
(now rare) Any of various pustular skin conditions.
tetter (third-person singular simple present tetters, present participle tettering, simple past and past participle tettered)
To affect with tetter.
Corruption of "potato".
tetter (plural tetters)
(Regional Dixieland vernacular, obsolete) Potato, or sweet potato root.
Source: Wiktionary
Tet"ter, n. Etym: [OE. teter, AS. teter, tetr; akin to G. zitter, zittermal, OHG. zittaroch, Skr. dadru, dadruka, a sort of skin disease. *63, 240.] (Med.)
Definition: A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes. Honeycomb tetter (Med.), favus.
– Moist tetter (Med.), eczema.
– Scaly tetter (Med.), psoriasis. Tetter berry (Bot.), the white bryony.
Tet"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tettered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tettering.]
Definition: To affect with tetter. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 June 2025
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.