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tetters

tetters is the plural of tetter.

Meaning of tetter

Noun (1)

tetter (countable and uncountable, plural tetters)

  1. (archaic) Any of various pustular skin conditions.
    • heal this tetter of pedagogism that bespreads him1642 April, An Apology against a Pamphlet Call’d A Modest Confutation of the Animadversions upon the Remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC

Noun (2)

tetter (plural tetters)

  1. (obsolete, Regional Dixieland vernacular) Potato, or sweet potato root.
    • Buh Sparruh biggin fur brag, an eh say: "Me tetter, him heap bigger den any me see. Me farruh befo me blan plant tetter, an him tetter bigger ner de calf er me leg. Me kin beat me farruh raise tetter1888, Charles Colcock Jones, Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast, Told in the Vernacular

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Questions about tetters

What is tetters the plural of?
Tetters is the plural of tetter.

Words near tetters in the dictionary

  1. tetterberry
  2. tettered
  3. tettering
  4. tetterish
  5. tetterous
  6. tetters
  7. Tetterton
  8. Tettertons
  9. tetterwort
  10. tettery
  11. tetties

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