Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, same as
fretted . - Marked: as, pock -fretten (marked with the smallpox).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Rubbed; marked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Marked . - verb Alternative past participle of
fret
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English freten, from Old English freten, ġefreten ("eaten"), past participle of Old English fretan ("to devour, eat up, consume, break, eat into"). More at fret.
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Examples
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So universal was the branding produced by this scourge that scarcely an advertisement containing any personal description appears in any colonial print, without containing the words, pock-fretten, pock-marked, pock-pitted, or pock-broken.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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'He is a thin, tallish man, a little pock-fretten, of a sallowish complexion.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 Samuel Richardson 1725
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‘He is a thin, tallish man, a little pock-fretten, of a sallowish complexion.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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