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frettings

/ˈfɹɛtɪŋz/

frettings is the plural of fretting.

Meaning of fretting

Noun

fretting (plural frettings)

  1. An irritation or worrying; a worry.
    • [I]t is highly likely that some preachers may have called on millennial frettings for their purposes. The theologian Abbo of Fleury recalled a premillennial sermon in his youth which did precisely this.1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 184
  2. A gnawing or eating away.

Questions about frettings

What is frettings the plural of?
Frettings is the plural of fretting.
How do you pronounce frettings?
Frettings is pronounced /ˈfɹɛtɪŋz/.

Words near frettings in the dictionary

  1. frettiness
  2. fretting
  3. fretting leprosy
  4. fretting the gizzard
  5. frettingly
  6. frettings
  7. fretts
  8. fretty
  9. fretum
  10. Fretwell
  11. fretwork

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