Reverse Dictionary: FRE – FRH

FREAK OUT – verbs
– SNAP to go crazy; to freak out …1970s Amer. sl.
 
FRECKLE – nouns
– ARR a spot or freckle …1830 Eng. dial.
– DANE SKIN a freckled skin …1887 Eng. dial.
– FARMFRECKLE a freckle on the skin …1889 Eng. dial.
– FERNITICKLES † freckles …1483 obs. exc. Sc.
– FORM-SPECKLE †* a freckle …1702
– HEAT-SPOT a red spot on the skin, a freckle …1822-34
– LENTIGO a freckle or pimple …c1400
– LENTILS † freckles or spots on the skin …1558-68
– MASE † a spot, a freckle …1527
– MURFLES freckles …1777 Eng. dial.
– SUMMER-FOLD † a freckle …1382 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SUMMER SPOT a freckle …1876
– TANSY-FACE a freckled face …1972 Sc.
– THORN-SPECKLES freckles …1885 Eng. dial.
– TURKEY-EGGS freckles …1761 Eng. & Amer. dial.
freckle – person
– PAINT a nickname for a man with freckles …Bk1936 US cowboy usage 
 
FRECKLED – adjectives
– BRAN-FACED freckle-faced …1890 Eng. dial.
– CHITTY †* freckled; covered with warts or pimples …1552
– FAN-FECKLED freckled, spotted with the sun …1859 Eng. dial.
– FAN-FRECKLED freckled, spotted with the sun …1859 Eng. dial.
– FARM-SPRECKLED freckled, having freckles on the skin …1893 Eng. dial.
– FRECKNY † freckled …c1440
– LENTIGINOUS full of freckles …1597
– NAEVOSE * spotted, freckled …1847
– NAEVOSE * spotted, freckled …1847
– PAWMPECKLED freckled, spotted …1843 Eng. dial.  
– PAWM-SPECKLED freckled, spotted …1843 Eng. dial.  
– THORN-PECKLED freckled …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TURKEY-EGGED freckled, speckled …1912 Amer. dial.
 
FREE – adjectives
– ACQUIT acquitted, cleared, set free …1393 arch.
– AT ONE’S LARGE † at liberty …c1384
– BACKSHEE free …M18 sl.
– BUCKSHEE free of charge …1916 Brit. sl.
– FREEBEE free of charge …1942 US sl.
– FREEBIE free of charge …1942 US sl.
– FREEBY free of charge …1942 US sl.
– HAND-LOOSE † free from restraint …1596
– LARGE 1. † having few or no restrictions or limitations; allowing considerable freedom …c1510
2. †* liberated, free …1600
– OFF THE CHAIN free, unrestrained or unrestricted …20C sl., orig. Aust.
– OFF THE STRING free, unrestrained or unrestricted …20C sl., orig. Aust.
– ON THE ARM free of charge …20C Amer. sl.
– SCART-FREE free of expense …1877 Sc.
free – adverbs
– BUCKSHEE for free, gratuitously …1921 Army sl.
– DEADHEAD for free …M19 sl.
– ON A ZOOM for free …1930s US Black sl.
– ON ONE’S FACE on credit, for free …L19 US sl.
free – nouns 
– FREEBEE, FREEBIE, FREEBY something free …1928 sl., orig. US
– RABBITS perquisites; anything ‘buckshee’ (free of charge) …c1920 Royal Navy usage
– SWAG free merchandise or tickets to concerts handed out by music recording companies …1997 US sl.
free – verbs 
– BUST LOOSE to break free from constraints …1920s US sl.
– LEESE † to set free, to release …a900
– MANUMISE † to release from slavery; to release from bondage or servitude; to set free …1523
– MANUMISS † to release from slavery; to release from bondage or servitude; to set free …1523
– MANUMIT to release from slavery; to release from bondage or servitude; to set free …1432-50
– QUIT † to set free, to release, to redeem (usually a person) …a1300
– REIGN to be at liberty …Bk1903 Aust. thieves’ sl.
– UNBAY † to free from barrier or restraint …1687
– UNBIND † to make free, to release from some legal restraint of obligation …1297
– ZOOM to get something without paying for it, as a ticket to a show …1930s US Black sl.
 
FREE-AND-EASY – adjectives
– RAG-TIME free-and-easy …c1920  Services’ usage
 
FREEBOOTER – person
– BERSERK a wild Norse warrior of great strength and ferocious courage, who fought on the battlefield with a frenzied fury known as the ‘berserker rage’; often a lawless bravo or freebooter …1879
– BERSERKER a wild Norse warrior of great strength and ferocious courage, who fought on the battlefield with a frenzied fury known as the ‘berserker rage’; often a lawless bravo or freebooter …1822
– JAYHAWKER a freebooter; a guerilla; a marauder during the Kansas troubles and since extended to all bandits …1887 Amer. sl.
– MARAUDER one who roves in quest of plunder; a freebooter, a plunderer …1698
– MOSS-TROOPER a member of any of the marauding gangs which, in the mid 17th century, carried out raids across the ‘mosses’ of the Scottish Border; a Border pillager or freebooter …1645 orig. Sc.
– RAPPAREE an Irish pikeman or irregular soldier, of the kind prominent during the war of 1688-92; hence, an Irish bandit, robber, plunderer, or freebooter; any ruffianly vagabond …1690
– SNAPHANCE † an armed robber or marauder; a freebooter or highwayman; a thief or desperate fellow …1538
 
FREEDOM – adjectives
– ELEUTHEROMANIAC having a mania or frantic zeal for freedom …1837
freedom- nouns 
– IMMUNITY † freedom from ordinary restraints; undue freedom, license …1583
– LARGENESS 1. † liberality, open-handedness; freedom in giving or spending …a1300
2. †* freedom, scope, opportunity …a1631
– LARGESSE † freedom, liberty …c1425
– SCOUTH, SCOWTH room, freedom, liberty to range, scope …1742 Sc.
– SCOUTH AND ROUTH freedom, room to range …Bk1904 Sc.
– SLACK freedom, leeway, relief of pressure …1950s sl.
freedom – person 
– ELEUTHEROMANIAC a person having a mad zeal for freedom …1837
freedom – verbs 
– TIE THE HANDS OF to deprive of freedom of action …1642
freedom – phrases
– TO THE LARGE † into a state of freedom …a1300.
 
FREEHOLDER – person
– OAKEN TENANT † one who has tenure by freehold; a freeholder …1619
– YEOMAN a man holding a small landed estate; a freeholder under the rank of a gentleman; hence vaguely, a commoner or countryman of respectable standing, esp. one who cultivates his own land …1411
 
FREELOADER – person (also see SPONGER, etc.)
– HANGER-ON a follower or dependant; a parasite; a sponger, a freeloader …1549
– YO-YO an uncompromising person; one whose political opinions and ideas change as necessary for personal gain; a freeloader …1947 Amer. sl. 
 
FREELY – adverbs
– DELIVERLY freely, continuously …1825 Sc.
– FROM CAN TO CAN’T without stint; all day long …1968 US sl.
– LARGE † freely, unrestrainedly, boldly …a1400
– LARGELY † freely, without restraint …c1425
– QUITELY † freely, at liberty …c1330
 
FREEMASON – person (also see MASON)
– LEFT-HANDED BRICKLAYER a Freemason …c1950 Brit. sl.
– MASONESS a female freemason …1833 nonce word
– WARDEN in freemasonry: either of two officers (called Senior and Junior Warden) in a symbolic lodge whose duty it is to assist the Worshipful Master …a1723 
 
FREE-SPIRITED – adjectives
– ODDBALL whimsically free-spirited, eccentric, atypical …1940 Amer. colloq.
free-spirited – person
– GIPSIE, GIPSY, GYPSY a person who is free-spirited and carefree, or who travels to many places …1937
 
FREE-SPOKEN – adjectives
– OFF-HAND plain, honest, blunt; free-spoken …Bk1905 Sc.
 
FREEZE – verbs
– CATCH to freeze …1879 Amer. dial.
– CATCH OVER to freeze over …1886
– FRIGITATE †* to freeze, to cool …1635
– LAPPER of water: to congeal, to turn to ice slowly, to freeze …1789 Sc.
– SKIFF to freeze over in a thin coat …1967 Amer. dial.
– SKIFT to freeze over in a thin coat …1943 Amer. dial.
– SKIM to freeze in a thin layer …1860 Amer. dial.
– SKIMP to freeze in a thin layer …1967 Amer. dial.
– TAKE of water: to begin to freeze …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TIE to freeze …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
FREEZER – nouns
– MONA LISA a freezer …1980s rhyming sl.
 
FREEZING – adjectives
– ARCTIC of weather or conditions: extremely cold, freezing …1876 colloq.
freezing – nouns
– GELATION solidification by cold, freezing …1854
 
FREIGHT – nouns
– BALLAST † load, burden, freight …1620
– NAULIZAMENT †* freighting of a vessel …1533
freight – verbs 
– BALLAST † to freight, to load with cargo …1590
 
FRENCH – see FRANCE
 
FRENCH TOAST – nouns
– LOST BREAD French toast …1967 Amer. dial.
– PAIN PERDU French toast …1896 Amer. dial.
– PAN-PAN-DO French toast …2000 Amer. dial.
 
FRENZIED, FRENZY – adjectives
– AMOK †* in a homicidal frenzy …E16
– APE frenzied, berserk …1950s Amer. sl.
– FRENZICAL † affected with frenzy; crazy, mad; frenzied, raging; wildly enthusiastic; frantic …a1586
– HET UP frenzied, having lost one’s composure …1902 sl.
– HOT AND BOTHERED frenzied, having lost one’s composure …1921 sl.
– MADDING becoming mad; acting madly; frenzied …1579 now poetical or rhetorical
– MAFFICKY inclined to be uproariously enthusiastic; frenzied with joy …Bk1910 sl.
– RAGEFUL †* mad, frantic, frenzied …1580
– RAISED infuriated, irascible, wild, frenzied, over-excited …1704 Sc.
– RAMAGE of persons: furious, frenzied, raging …c1470
– RAMAGEOUS † furious, frenzied, raging …a1600 obs.
– RAMAGIOUS † furious, frenzied, raging …a1600
– RAMMAGE frenzied, crazed with drink; sexually excited, voluptuous …1824 Sc.
frenzied, frenzy – nouns
– PANIC STATIONS a frenzy; alarm leading to confused action …1961 sl.
– RAISE a state of extreme bad temper; a frenzy …1894 Sc.
– RAMMISTNESS † madness, frenzy …1456 Sc.
– REE excitement, frenzy …1825 Sc.
frenzied, frenzy – person
– MAFFICKER n. one who celebrates a joyful event with frenzied enthusiasm …1900
frenzied, frenzy – verbs 
– ECSTASY † to throw into a state of frenzy or stupor …1627
– GET ONE’S KNICKERS IN A TWIST to become angrily agitated or upset; to behave frenziedly …1971 Brit. sl.
– GO APE to behave frenziedly …1955 sl., orig. US
– HAVE A FIT to behave frenziedly …1877 sl.
– HAVE FORTY FITS to behave frenziedly …1877 sl.
– HAVE KITTENS to be in a state of great excitement, anxiety, or anger; to behave frenziedly …1900 sl., orig. US
– LOCO craze, to derange, to frenzy …1884 Amer. dial.
– MAFFICK to give way to a frenzy of enthusiasm; to celebrate a victory with a delirious uproar …1900
– RAMMISH to be driven about under the influence of any strong desire; to go about in a state approaching frenzy …Bk1905 Sc.
– TEAR ONE’S HAIR to behave frenziedly …1606
– TEAR ONE’S HAIR OUT to behave frenziedly …1606
 
 FREQUENCY – nouns
– CREBRITUDE †* frequency, oftenness …1730
 
FREQUENT – adjectives
– CREBROUS †* frequent; frequently occurring; near together …c1600
– OFT frequent, numerous, repeated …1868 Sc.
– ORDINARY † of common or everyday occurrence; frequent; abundant …1597
– RANK † numerous, frequent …1545 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
– REGULAR AS PIG-TRACKS frequent …1853 Amer. dial.
– THICK numerous, plentiful; frequent, in quick succession …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– YEDER † quick; frequent …a1400-50
frequent – verbs 
– HARBOUR to dwell in a place; to haunt, to frequent …1886 Eng. dial.
– HEAT †* to keep a place ‘warm’ by frequenting it …1606
– KADOODLE to hang around, to frequent, to wander about …L19 US sl.
 
FREQUENTED – adjectives
– OF GREAT HAUNT † much frequented …c1345
 
FREQUENTER – person
– HABITUÉ one who has the habit of going to or frequenting a place, esp. a place of amusement or recreation; a habitual visitor or temporary resident …1818
– HAUNTER one who haunts; a frequenter; one who is often found in any place …c1440
– SUITOR †* a frequenter of a place …c1290
 
FREQUENTLY – adverbs
– AT EVERY HAND’S TURN often, frequently …1899 Amer. dial.
– AT EVERY WHIPSTITCH frequently; continuously; from time to time …1809 Amer. dial.
– EVER ANONS-WHILE at frequent intervals …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– EVERLIE constantly, perpetually, frequently, continually …1829 Sc.
– EVERLY always, constantly, perpetually, frequently, continually, continuously …1829 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– EVERY HANDS WHILE frequently, constantly …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– EVERY-LIKE very frequently, on every occasion or opportunity …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– EVERY WHIPSTITCH frequently; continuously; from time to time …1827 Amer. dial.
– HAUNTINGLY † often, frequently, customarily …c1440
– MANY A TIME AND OFT on many occasions, in many instances, often, frequently …1760-72
– OFTEN-SITHE † many times; frequently, often …c1386
– OFTEN-TIDE † many times; frequently, often …c1330
– OFTENTIME * frequently, often …c1400
– OFTENTIMES many times; frequently, often …c1430 arch.
– OFTEN-WHILE many times; frequently, often …1605
– OFTEN-WHILES many times; frequently, often …a1850
– REGULAR AWAY often, frequently …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TIME OUT OF NUMBER frequently, repeatedly …1892 Eng. dial.
– TIMES frequently, many times …1890 Eng. dial.
– TIMES AND OFTEN frequently, repeatedly, many times …1885 Eng. dial.
– UNDER AND OVER frequently, over and over again …1874 Eng. dial.
 
FRESH – adjectives
– CALLER of fish, vegetables, etc. fresh, in proper season, newly caught or gathered …1724 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ELSH new, fresh …1867 Eng. dial.
– REVIRESCENT * growing fresh or young again; flourishing anew …1644
– SKIN young, youthful; fresh, new …1989 UK Royal Navy sl.
– VIVE † living; brisk, vigorous; fresh …1610 Sc.
– YASP brisk, fresh …1898 Sc.
 
FRESHEN – verbs
– CALLER to freshen, to cool, to refresh …1817 Sc.
 
FRESHLY – adverbs
– GREENLY freshly, vigorously, vividly …M17
– VERDANTLY in a verdant manner; freshly, flourishingly …1828
 
FRESHMAN – person
– BABE a freshman …1927 US college sl.
– JOHNNIE NEWCOME a new arrival; a fresh face; a freshman at college; a new baby, etc. …1823 sl.
– NEWCOME a new arrival; a fresh face; a freshman at college; a new baby, etc. …1821 sl.
– NEW MEAT a freshman …1960s US campus sl.
 
FRESHNESS – nouns
– CALLERNESS freshness …1835 Sc.
– GREENNESS freshness, newness …M16 Sc.
– QUICKNESS † animation, liveliness, briskness, vigour, freshness …c1369
– VERD † verdancy, freshness, newness, originality …1603
 
FRET – verbs
– AGGRAFRET to aggravate or fret …1919 Amer. dial.
– CANK to annoy, to fret, to overcome …1944 Amer. dial.
– CANKER to fret, to become peevish; to put into a bad temper, to sour …1873 Sc.
– CARK † to be anxious, to be full of anxious thought; to fret oneself; to labour anxiously, to toil and moil …a1350
– CARKY to fret, to complain, grumble …19C Eng. dial.
– CHANNER to mutter, grumble, murmur, fret, complain; to scold, not noisily, but constantly; to chide …c1375 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– CRAKE to whimper, or plaintively ask for a thing over and over again; to murmur, to complain, to fret ….1871 Eng. dial.
– FASH † to make angry, to enrage; to fret, to be angry … 1533 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– FAUNCH to fret, to worry; to show irritation or impatience; to complain, to sulk …1970 Amer. dial.
– FEAZE to worry, to fret …1886 Amer. dial.
– FEEZE to worry, to fret …1886 Amer. dial.
– FRAB to harass, worry, fret, fidget; to irritate, excite …1848 Eng. dial.
– FRATCH to worry about trifles; to fret, to grumble …1884 Eng. dial.
– FRIMICATE to be fretful or uneasy at trifles …19C Eng. dial.
– GALL to annoy, to vex, to irritate, to hurt in feeling; to chafe, to fret, to become pettish …1602
– GRAME † to be vexed or displeased; to fret; to anger, grieve, vex, annoy …c1320
– HARM to fret, to grumble; to be peevish or ill-tempered …Bk1902 Sc.
– HATTER to fret, to make a fuss …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– HAVE A BABY to experience fright, shock, or anger; also, to fret …1950 Amer. sl.
– JAMMER to lament; to cry aloud fretfully; to fret; to whimper; to complain; to grumble …1774 Ireland
– MACERATE † to fret, to vex, to worry …1588.
– MEASEN to be in a dreamy state; to act slothfully; to mope, to fret …1876 Eng. dial.
– NAGGLE to fret continually; to pain continuously …1885 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– NARR to be discontented or peevish; to fret …1825 Sc.
– NATTER to grumble; to fret; to scold; to speak in a querulous or peevish manner …1829 Eng. dial.
– ORP to fret, to grumble, to murmur discontentedly, to complain in a peevish, nagging manner …1725 Sc.
– PAMPER to fret …1887 Eng. dial.
– RANKLE * to fret or chafe angrily, to be or become irritated …1582
– SQUEEZE to fret, to whimper …Bk1896 Amer. dial.
– SQUINNY to weep or cry; to fret, as a child …1847
– TERRIFY to fret, to be anxious about nothing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TEW to fuss, to fret; to bustle about; to move about quickly  …1848 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– TEW AROUND to fuss, to fret; to bustle …1848 Amer. dial.
– TOO to fuss, to fret; to bustle …1848 Amer. dial.
– TU to fuss, to fret; to bustle …1848 Amer. dial.
– TU AROUND to fuss, to fret; to bustle …1848 Amer. dial.
– WHINDLE to whimper, to whine, to cry peevishly, to fret …1770 Amer. dial.
– WHINNEL to whimper, to whine, to cry peevishly, to fret …1886 Amer. dial.
– YALE to cry; to howl; to fret like a sick child; to grumble …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– YAMMER to lament, to mourn; to utter cries of lamentation or distress, to wail; to cry aloud fretfully; to whine, to whimper, to fret …1481 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– YAMOUR to lament; to cry aloud fretfully; to fret; to whimper; to complain; to grumble …1774 Sc.
– YATTER to speak in a constant peevish, querulous manner; to nag, to chide, to carp, to scold, to fret, to grumble; to harp on about something …1811 Sc.
– YEDDLE to fret, to grumble; to talk in an irritating manner …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– YERP to fret, grumble …Bk1905 Sc.
– YIMMER to lament; to cry aloud fretfully; to fret; to whimper; to complain; to grumble …1774 N. Ireland
– YOMER to lament; to cry aloud fretfully; to fret; to whimper; to complain; to grumble …1774 Sc.
 
FRETFUL – adjectives
– ATRY of persons: irritable, fretful, grim, ill-tempered …1742 Sc.
– ATTERY of persons: irritable, fretful, grim, ill-tempered …1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– AVER peevish, fretful …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BELLY-ACHING fretful, complaining …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CRANKY irritable; fretful …Bk2006 US sl.
– FRAMPOLD † ill-tempered, cross, disagreeable, peevish, fretful, fractious, quarrelsome …1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– FRETTY fretful …Bk1896 Amer. dial.
– FRITCHETY fretful, peevish, fidgety …19C Eng. dial.
– FROPPISH † froward, fretful, peevish …1659
– FUDGY fretful, irritable, uneasy …1819
– ILL vicious, bad-tempered, cross, angry, peevish, fretful, morose, unpleasant …1857 Amer. dial.
– MAZED fidgety, uneasy, over-anxious; fretful …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NAGGLY touchy, fretful, sarcastic, quarrelsome; ill-natured …Bk1903 Sc.
– OOLING of a person: fretful, peevish, downcast …1928 Sc.
– PARBREAKING belching; fretful …1746 Eng. dial.
– PENSY † of children: fretful, peevish, fractious, complaining …a1812 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– PINEY-WHINEY complaining from indisposition; fretful …1866 Eng. dial.
– RAMISED dazed, as from lack of sleep or from being suddenly awakened; stupefied, listless in a peevish, fretful way; esp. of a child …a1838 Sc.
– RAMISHED dazed, as from lack of sleep or from being suddenly awakened; stupefied, listless in a peevish, fretful way; esp. of a child …a1838 Sc.
– SANNOCKING fretful, peevish, whining …1893 Eng. dial.
– SQUEEZY fretful …Bk1896 Amer. dial.
– TADIOUS peevish, fretful, fractious, irritable, difficult to please; fidgety, restless …1892 Eng. dial.
– TAGEOUS peevish, fretful, fractious, irritable, difficult to please; fidgety, restless …1892 Eng. dial.
– TAISEY fretful, fractious; ill-tempered …1866 Eng. dial.
– TANGLESOME discontented; obstinate; fretful …1823 Eng. dial.
– TANKERSOME † fractious, fretful, cross, ill-humoured, ill-natured, peevish; unreasonably quarrelsome …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TARVEAL † ill-natured, fretful …1742 Sc.
– TASH † fretful, captious, hard to please; ill-natured; forward …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TATCHY touchy, irritable, peevish, fretful, cross …1746 Eng. dial.
– TEASY fretful, fractious; ill-tempered …1866 Eng. dial.
– TEATY peevish, fretful, fractious, cross; used esp. of children …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TEAZY fretful, fractious; ill-tempered …1866 Eng. dial.
– TECHEOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1842 Amer. dial.
– TECHOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1903 Amer. dial.
– TECHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended, sensitive …1815 Amer. dial.
– TEDDIOUS peevish, fretful, fractious, irritable, difficult to please; fidgety, restless …1892 Eng. dial.
– TEDDISOME fretful, fractious, tiresome …1869 Eng. dial.
– TEDIOUS peevish, fretful, fractious, irritable, difficult to please; fidgety, restless …1892 Eng. dial.
– TEEDY peevish, fretful, fractious, cross; used esp. of children …1790 Sc.
– TEENY fretful, fractious; said of a little child …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TEETHY fretful, fractious, tetchy; generally applied to children or infants …1828 Eng. dial.
– TEETY peevish, fretful, fractious, cross; used esp. of children …1790 Eng. dial.
– TETCHEROUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1976 Amer. dial.
– TETCHIFIED touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1944 Amer. dial.
– TETCHIOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1913 Amer. dial.
– TETCHOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1842 Amer. dial.
– TETCHOUS AS A SKINNED EEL touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1842 Amer. dial.
– TETCHSOME touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1966 Amer. dial.
– TETCHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended …1592
– TIMEROUS furious, passionate; difficult to please, fretful; tiresome, difficult …1684 Eng. dial.
– TIMMY irritable, fretful …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TIMOROUS furious, passionate; difficult to please, fretful; tiresome, difficult …1684 Eng. dial.
– VEAKING fretful, peevish; blaming, carping …1746 Eng. dial.
– WHINY-PINY complaining, fretful, peevish, querulous …1854 Eng. dial.
– YATTERIE fretful …Bk1905 Sc.
– YATTERIN captious, fretful, querulous, scolding …a1838 Sc.
– YATTERY captious, fretful, querulous, scolding …a1838 Sc.
fretful – nouns
– OORIECOORIE † a drowsy dull condition of body or sprits, a being sulky or out-of-sorts, a peevish, fretful mood; generally in plural …1893 S.
fretful – person 
– BELL-WEDDER a fretful, bellowing child …Bk1828 Eng. dial.
– BELL-WETHER a clamorous person; one ready to give mouth; a gossiping woman; a fretful child …c1460
– CROWSBY a cross, fretful child …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– DEVILING a fretful, troublesome woman …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FLITTERBUDGET a fussy or fretful person …1965 Amer. dial.
– FLUTTERBUDGET a fussy or fretful person …1965 Amer. dial.
– FUSSABUDGET a fussy or fretful person …1965 Amer. dial.
– FUSSBUDGET a fussy or fretful person …1904 colloq.
– FUSSYBUDGET a fussy or fretful person …1965 Amer. dial.
– GENNING-PUKE a fretful, grumbling person …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GENNOT a fretful child …Bk1873 Eng. dial.
– GENNY-GIBS a fretful, grumbling person; a murmuring, discontented, peevish person …Bk1877 Eng. dial.
– GIRN-AGAIN † a peevish, ill-humoured person; a child who is habitually whimpering or fretting …1706 Sc.
– GIRNIE a fretful, peevish, bad-tempered person; a child who is habitually whimpering or fretting …1825 Sc.
– GIRNIE-GIBBIE a fretful, peevish, bad-tempered person; a child who is habitually whimpering or fretting …1890 Sc.
– GIRNIGO a fretful, peevish, grumbling, bad-tempered person; a child who is habitually whimpering or fretting …1825 Sc.
– GIRNIGO-GASH a fretful, peevish, bad-tempered person; a child who is habitually whimpering or fretting; a petulant child …1825 Sc.
– GIRNIGO-GIBBIE a fretful, peevish, bad-tempered person; a child who is habitually whimpering or fretting …1788 Sc.
– GIRNY-GO-GABBY a fretful, peevish, bad-tempered person; a child who is habitually whimpering or fretting …Bk1900 Sc.
– GIRNY-GOW-GIBBY a fretful child …1929 Sc.
– SPUTTERBRIDGET someone who is too particular; a finicky, fussy, or fretful person …1915 Amer. dial.
– SPUTTERBUDGET a fussy or fretful person …1915 Amer. dial.
– TEELYTOON a teasing, fretful, wearisome child …B1900 Eng. dial.
– WRINGLE-GUT a restless, fretful person; a nervous, fidgety man …1777 Eng. dial.
– YAMMERER a whining, fretful child …1874 Sc.
fretful – verbs
– GO VEAKING ABOUT to be fretful …1892 Eng. dial.
 
FRETFULLY – adverbs
– CARKINGLY † anxiously, fretfully, solicitously …1611
– WHINY-PINY in a fretful manner …B1900
 
FRETFULNESS – nouns
– AIRS fits of ill-humour; fretfulness …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CANKERAN fretfulness, complaint…Bk1898 Sc.
– FEASE, FEAZE, FEEZE a state of excitement or anxiety; a fit of fretfulness …1647 Amer. dial.
– HARMING fretfulness, peevishness; grumbling …Bk1902 Sc.
– PHEESE a state of excitement or anxiety; a fit of fretfulness …1647 Amer. dial.
– PHEEZE a state of excitement or anxiety; a fit of fretfulness …1647 Amer. dial.
 
FRETTING – adjectives
– CARKING 1. † burdening, distressing, grieving, fretting …c1565 obs. or arch.
2. † anxious; fretting …1567 obs. or arch.
– FAUNCHY fretting, worried; complaining …1970 Amer. dial.
– FASHIOUS fractious, peevish, fretting, esp. of children; fussy, fastidious …1736 Sc.
– FASHOUS fractious, peevish, fretting, esp. of children; fussy, fastidious …1736 Sc.
– PANNIKIN fretting, ‘taking on’ as a sickly or wearisome child …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
fretting – nouns 
– MACERATION † fretting, vexation, worry; an instance of this …1616
– TEW a struggle, difficulty; a laboured effort; fatigue, trouble; an annoyance, a worry or fretting; a state of anxiety, nervous excitement, confusion, or impatience; a disturbed state …1864 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
– YERP the act of fretting …Bk1905 Sc.
 
FREUD, SIGMUND
– FROOD DUDE, THE Sigmund Freud …20C teen & high school sl.