Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which frets.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, frets.

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  • noun Someone who frets.

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Examples

  • Bon d'un autre coté il maitrise super bien les Hammer-on et Pull-off donc il peut se permettre de "fretter" a deux mains!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • Someone has said that a wasp is a comfortable house-mate in comparison; it only stings when disturbed, but a habitual, discontented fretter stings with or without provocation.

    Contentment 2009

  • Someone has said that a wasp is a comfortable house-mate in comparison; it only stings when disturbed, but a habitual, discontented fretter stings with or without provocation.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • But even by American Jewish standards, Sendak is a world-class fretter.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • But even by American Jewish standards, Sendak is a world-class fretter.

    Sendak as a Lion in Winter 2008

  • I, a born fretter, was thinking: Have I really done enough to prepare him for the world?

    Steve Wonders: Have I Taught Isaac Enough? 2009

  • That's when a fellow fretter pointed me to FastWeb, the most popular Internet scholarship site, self-described as "the best way to get free money for school."

    Web Site of Hard Knocks 2008

  • I am a terrible fretter too, so you have my sympathy.

    limbo 2005

  • The fretter and those about him are made uncomfortable.

    Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker

  • He had taken to the girl from the first day, when he had driven over to the Flats to meet her, and she had smiled and waved to him from the train, crying out, "You must be Ethan!" as she jumped down with her bundles, while he reflected, looking over her slight person: "She don't look much on housework, but she ain't a fretter, anyhow."

    Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1899

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