Fret vs. Fuss

Fretverb

Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.

Fretverb

(transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.

Fretverb

(transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.

Fretverb

(transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.

Fretverb

(ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.

Fretverb

(ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.

Fretverb

(intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.

Fretverb

(intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.

Fretverb

(intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.

Fretverb

To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.

Fretverb

(transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.

Fretverb

(transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.

Fretverb

(transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.

Fretverb

To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.

Fretverb

Musical senses.

Fretverb

To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).

Fretverb

To press down the string behind a fret.

Fretnoun

Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

Fretnoun

Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.

Fretnoun

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Fretnoun

The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.

Fretnoun

An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.

Fretnoun

(heraldic charge) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

Fretnoun

A ferrule, a ring.

Fretnoun

(music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.

Fretnoun

A channel, a strait; a fretum.

Fretnoun

(rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.

Fretnoun

(Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.

Fretnoun

See 1st Frith.

Fretnoun

The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

Fretnoun

Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.

Fretnoun

Herpes; tetter.

Fretnoun

The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.

Fretnoun

Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork.

Fretnoun

An ornament consisting of small fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at oblique angles, as often in Oriental art.

Fretnoun

The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.

Fretnoun

A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

Fretnoun

A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed.

Fretverb

To devour.

Fretverb

To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship.

Fretverb

To impair; to wear away; to diminish.

Fretverb

To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.

Fretverb

To tease; to irritate; to vex.

Fretverb

To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.

Fretverb

To eat in; to make way by corrosion.

Fretverb

To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast.

Fretverb

To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.

Fretverb

To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.

Fretverb

To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.

Fretnoun

agitation resulting from active worry;

Fretnoun

a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion

Fretnoun

an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizonal lines (often in relief);

Fretnoun

a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch

Fretverb

worry unnecessarily or excessively;

Fretverb

be agitated or irritated;

Fretverb

provide (a musical instrument) with frets;

Fretverb

become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

Fretverb

cause annoyance in

Fretverb

gnaw into; make resentful or angry;

Fretverb

carve a pattern into

Fretverb

decorate with an interlaced design

Fretverb

be too tight; rub or press;

Fretverb

cause friction;

Fretverb

remove soil or rock;

Fretverb

wear away or erode

Fret

A fret is a space between two fretbars on the neck of a stringed instrument. Frets usually extend across the full width of the neck.

Fussnoun

Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.

Fussnoun

A complaint or noise; a scene.

Fussnoun

An exhibition of affection or admiration.

Fussverb

(intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.

Fussverb

(intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust

Fussverb

To cry or be ill-humoured.

Fussverb

To show affection for, especially animals.

Fussverb

(transitive) To pet.

Fussnoun

A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

Fussnoun

One who is unduly anxious about trifles; a fussbudget.

Fussverb

To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.

Fussnoun

an excited state of agitation;

Fussnoun

an angry disturbance;

Fussnoun

a quarrel about petty points

Fussnoun

a rapid bustling commotion

Fussverb

worry unnecessarily or excessively;

Fussverb

care for like a mother;