Reverse Dictionary: FRET

ADJECTIVES
► AFRET in a fretted state; fretting → 1518
► ALFISH cross, fretful, mischievous, ill-natured, ‘elvish’ → 1887 Sc.
► ATRY ► ATTERY of persons: irritable, fretful, grim, ill-tempered → 1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► AVER peevish, fretful → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BELLY-ACHING fretful, complaining → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CAPPERNISHIOUS short-tempered, fretful and finding fault continually → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► CARBIN fretful, peevish → 1825 Sc.
► CARKING 1. burdening, distressing, grieving, fretting → c1565 obs.
2. anxious; fretting → 1567 obs.
► CRANKOUS irritable, fretful, cranky → 1786 Sc.
► CRANKY irritable; fretful → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► FASHIOUS ► FASHOUS fractious, peevish, fretting, esp. of children; fussy, fastidious → 1736 Sc.
► FAUNCHY fretting, worried; complaining → 1970 Amer. dial.
► FEASY cross, irritable, peevish, fretful → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FRAMPOLD ill-tempered, cross, disagreeable, peevish, fretful, fractious, quarrelsome → 1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FRETTISH fretful → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► FRETTY fretful → 1896 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► FRITCHETY fretful, peevish, fidgety → 19C Eng. dial.
► FROPPISH froward, fretful, peevish → 1659 obs.
► FUDGY fretful, irritable, uneasy → 1819
► GYREFUL fretful, ill-humoured, discontented → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► ILL vicious, bad-tempered, cross, angry, peevish, fretful, morose, unpleasant → 1857 Amer. dial.
► MAZED fidgety, uneasy, over-anxious; fretful → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NAGGLY ► NAGLY fretful, grumbling, complaining; ill-conditioned → 1900 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OOLING of a person: fretful, peevish, downcast → 1928 Sc.
► PANNIKIN fretting, ‘taking on’ as a sickly or wearisome child → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► 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 ► 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.
► SQUEEZAY ► SQUEEZY fretful → 1896 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► TADIOUS ► 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 → 19C Eng. dial. obs.
► TARVEAL ill-natured, fretful → 1742 Sc. obs.
► TASH fretful, captious, hard to please; ill-natured; forward → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► TATCHY touchy, irritable, peevish, fretful, cross → 1746 Eng. dial.
► TEASY ► TEAZY fretful, fractious; ill-tempered → 1866 Eng. dial.
► TEATY peevish, fretful, fractious, cross; used esp. of children → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TECHEOUS ► TECHOUS ► TETCHIOUS ► TETCHOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1842 Amer. dial.
► TECHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended, sensitive → 1815 Amer. dial.
► TEDDIOUS ► TEDIOUS peevish, fretful, fractious, irritable, difficult to please; fidgety, restless → 1892 Eng. dial.
► TEDDISOME fretful, fractious, tiresome → 1869 Eng. dial.
► TEEDY peevish, fretful, fractious, cross; used esp. of children → 1790 Sc.
► TEENY fretful, fractious; said of a little child → 19C 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.
► 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 ► TIMOROUS furious, passionate; difficult to please, fretful; tiresome, difficult → 1684 Eng. dial.
► TIMMY irritable, fretful → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► 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 ► YATTERY captious, fretful, querulous, scolding → a1838 Sc.
► YATTERIN captious, fretful, querulous, scolding → a1838 Sc.

ADVERBS
► CARKINGLY anxiously, fretfully, solicitously → 1611 obs.
► WHINY-PINY in a fretful manner → 19C

NOUNS
► AIRS fits of ill-humour; fretfulness → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CANKERAN fretfulness, complaint→ 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► FEASE ► FEAZE ► FEEZE a state of excitement or anxiety; a fit of fretfulness → 1647 Amer. dial.
► HARMING fretfulness, peevishness; grumbling → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► MACERATION fretting, vexation, worry; an instance of this → 1616 obs.
► OORIECOORIE a drowsy dull condition of body or sprits, a being sulky or out-of-sorts, a peevish, fretful mood; generally in plural → 1893 Sc. obs.
► PHEESE ► PHEEZE a state of excitement or anxiety; a fit of fretfulness → 1647 Amer. dial.
► 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.
► TWINE a fretful or agitated state; a fit of ill temper; a bad mood → 1876 Eng. dial.
► YERP the act of fretting → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS, PERSON
► BELL-WEDDER a fretful, bellowing child → 1828 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BELL-WETHER a clamorous person; one ready to give mouth; a gossiping woman; a fretful child → c1460
► CROWSBY a cross, fretful child → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEVILING a fretful, troublesome woman → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FEASE a fretting, whining child → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FLITTERBUDGET ► 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 → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GENNOT a fretful child → 1873 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GENNY-GIBS a fretful, grumbling person; a murmuring, discontented, peevish person → 1877 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GIRN-AGAIN a peevish, ill-humoured person; a child who is habitually whimpering or fretting → 1706 Sc. obs.
► 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 → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GIRNY-GOW-GIBBY a fretful child → 1929 Sc.
► GOWLY a fretful, crying child → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GRIZZLE a person who grizzles or frets → 1893
► PETER GRIEVOUS a fretful child → M19 colloq.
► SPUTTERBRIDGET ► SPUTTERBUDGET someone who is too particular; a finicky, fussy, or fretful person → 1915 Amer. dial.
► TEELYTOON a teasing, fretful, wearisome child → 19C Eng. dial.
► WRINGLE-GUT a restless, fretful person; a nervous, fidgety man → 1777 Eng. dial.
► YAMMERER a whining, fretful child → 1874 Sc. 

VERBS
► AGGERFRET ► AGGRAFRET to aggravate, to fret → 1919 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► 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 obs.
► 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. obs.
► FAUNCH to fret, to worry; to show irritation or impatience; to complain, to sulk → 1970 Amer. dial.
► FEASE ► FEAZE ► FEEZE to disturb, to annoy, to put to inconvenience; to fret, to worry, to harass → 1873 Sc. & Eng. & 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
► GNAGGLE  to grumble or fret continually; to scold, to find fault with → 1892 Eng. dial.
► GO VEAKING ABOUT to be fretful → 1892 Eng. dial.
► GRAME to be vexed or displeased; to fret; to anger, grieve, vex, annoy → c1320 obs.
► GRIZZLE to fret or sulk; to cry in a whining or whimpering fashion → 1842
► HARM to fret, to grumble; to be peevish or ill-tempered → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► HATTER to fret, to make a fuss → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► 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 obs.
► MEASEN to be in a dreamy state; to act slothfully; to mope, to fret → 1876 Eng. dial.
► MUCKLE to fret, to bother → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► 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 → 1896 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SQUINNY to weep or cry; to fret, as a child → 1847
► TERRIFY to fret, to be anxious about nothing → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TEW ► TEW AROUND ► TOO ► TU ► TU AROUND to fuss, to fret; to bustle about; to move about quickly  → 1848 Eng. & 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.
► WORRIT to suffer anxiety, to worry, to fret → 1862 Amer. dial.
► YALE to cry; to howl; to fret like a sick child; to grumble → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YAMMER ► YAMOUR ► YIMMER ► YOMER 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.
► 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 → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YERP to fret, grumble → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)