fretty

¹ American  

[fret-ee] / ˈfrɛt i /

adjective

frettier, frettiest

1. fretful; irritable; peevish.

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fretty ² American  

[fret-ee] / ˈfrɛt i /

adjective

Heraldry.

1. covered with criss-crossed and interlacing diagonal strips.

   argent, fretty sable.

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Etymology

Origin of fretty¹

First recorded in 1835–45; fret ¹ + -y ¹

Origin of fretty²

1555–65; < Middle French frette, derivative of frete trelliswork. See fret ², -ee

Example Sentences

Miss Lizzy, she gets fretty, but she still the same Miss Lizzy.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

At the present time it is not usual to name the number of pieces, but merely the word fretty.

From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous

The arms of Lord Audley were Gules, fretty or, and those of the four valiant esquires, as borne for many generations by their respective descendants, in the counties of Chester and Rutland, as follows: Delves.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

My madam is at the theatre, and the baby has been fretty for two hours, and just a minute ago he stiffened out like this.

From Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Garrison, Adele

Wyvile bore “Gules fretty vair with a chief gold.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various