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noun
Any of various pustular skin conditions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
Potato, or sweet potato root.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Qualifier: Regional Dixieland vernacular
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verb
To affect with tetter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From Middle English teter, from Old English teter, tetr, tetra, from Proto-West Germanic *tetru, from Proto-Germanic *tetruz, *tetruhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dedru-, from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, crack”).
Corruption of potato.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
