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
22 June 2025
(noun) an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
