In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
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
15 March 2025
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.