- present tense form of fetter (3rd person singular).
fetters
Example Sentences
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It makes her appealing, something of a role model for fretters.
From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2022
To which the fretters reply: Then why isn't he winning?
From Time Magazine Archive
Those turbulent fretters against the dam of dullness and stern repression of even normal and harmless gaiety had long caused scandal.
From The Cost by Phillips, David Graham
It occurred to me that Walt Whitman must have meant didactic letters too, when he said of the fretters of our little world, "They make me sick talking of their duty to God."
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack
Hundreds of thousands of fussers, fretters, semi- and would-be invalids, and all other halters by the wayside should be reached by Dr. Walton's stirring encouragement to "peg along."
From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)
