tetter

noun /ˈtɛtə/

1. Any of various pustular skin conditions.

   archaic, countable, uncountable

   heal this tetter of pedagogism that bespreads him

Where it comes from

From Middle English teter, from Old English teter, tetr, tetra, from Proto-West Germanic *tetru, from Proto-Germanic *tetruz, *tetruhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dedru-, from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, crack”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry tetter (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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