Reverse Dictionary: FRET

ADJECTIVES
• AFRET in a fretted state; fretting …1518
• ALFISH cross, fretful, mischievous, ill-natured, ‘elvish’ …1887 Sc.
– 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.
• CAPPERNISHIOUS short-tempered, fretful and finding fault continually …Bk1898 Sc.
• CARBIN fretful, peevish …1825 Sc.
• CARKING anxious, fretting, wearying, tiresome …1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• CRANKOUS irritable, fretful, cranky …1786 Sc.
– CRANKY irritable; fretful …Bk2006 US sl.
• FEASY cross, irritable, peevish, fretful …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– 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.
• TWINEY given to whining or moaning; fretful, agitated, complaining …1824 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.
– 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.

ADVERBS
– CARKINGLY † anxiously, fretfully, solicitously …1611
– WHINY-PINY in a fretful manner …B1900

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.
– 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.
– 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.
• TWINE a fretful or agitated state; a fit of ill temper; a bad mood …1876 Eng. dial.

NOUNS, 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.
• FEASE a fretting, whining child …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. 

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.
• FEASE to disturb, to annoy, to put to inconvenience; to fret, to worry, to harass …1873 Sc. & Eng. 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.
• TWINE to cry, to fret; to whine; to complain, to moan …1805 Eng. 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.
– GO VEAKING ABOUT to be fretful …1892 Eng. dial.