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    [Verb]  | "fret" | \ ˈfret \


    1: to eat or gnaw into : corrode; also : fray

    2: rub, chafe

    3: to make by wearing away a substance


    Origin: 12th century ;

     Middle English, to devour, fret, from Old English fretan to devour; akin to Old High German frezzan to devour, ezzan to eat ;

    [Verb]  | "fret" 


    1: to decorate with interlaced designs

    2: to form a pattern upon

    3: to enrich with embossed or pierced carved patterns


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English, back-formation from fret, fretted adorned, interwoven, from Anglo-French fretté, past participle of fretter to tie, probably from Vulgar Latin *firmitare, from Latin firmus firm;

    [Verb]  | "fret" 


    1: to press (the strings of a stringed instrument) against the frets


    Origin: 1602 ;

    [Noun]  | "fret" 


    1: the action of wearing away : erosion

    2: a worn or eroded spot

    3: an agitation of mind : irritation


    Origin: 15th century ;

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    [Noun]  | "fret" 


    1: an ornamental network; especially : a medieval metallic or jeweled net for a woman's headdress

    2: an ornament or ornamental work often in relief consisting of small straight bars intersecting one another in right or oblique angles


    Origin: 14th century ;

    [Noun]  | "fret" 


    1: one of a series of ridges fixed across the fingerboard of a stringed musical instrument (such as a guitar)


    Origin: circa 1500 ;

     Perhaps from Middle French frete ferrule, from freter;

    [Verb]  | "fret" 


    1: to consume or wear away gradually;


      * e.g., " ... over the span of thousands of years, the annual spring runoff fretted the rock, forming a deep channel "



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    2: to damage or diminish by continued friction;


      * e.g., " ... don't let the girth fret the horse's belly or you won't be able to ride him "



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    3: to experience concern or anxiety;


      * e.g., " ... don't fret over whether it will be sunny tomorrow, as there's nothing we can do about it "



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    [Noun]  | "fret" 


    1: a state of nervous or irritated concern;


      * e.g., " ... one of my customers always gets into a fret if I'm so much as 15 minutes late delivering his newspaper "



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     [ "fret" ]

    1: to stress or get mad at something small -frettin

      * e.g.,  ... Yo why you frettin shawty?? 

     [ "fret" ]

    1: a marker on the neck of a guitar showing where to press down the string to produce the desired note.

      * e.g.,  ... to play an A# pluck the A string at the first fret 

     [ "fret" ]

    1: angry,pissed; adj.

      * e.g.,  ... I can't believe he did that, i'm so fret! 

     [ "Fret Not" ]

    1: Do not become anxious about something.

      * e.g.,  ... - "Sorry for the delay, I've been busy." 

     [ "frettings" ]

    1: when you spend too much time fretting over your Facebook privacy settings...

      * e.g.,  ... I spent so much time considering all possibilities for who to share information with on Facebook and finally reset all my frettings 

     [ "Don't fret" ]

    1: A cooler way to say "don't worry."

      * e.g.,  ... Person-I TOLD YOU TO STAY HOME AND CLEAN YOUR ROOM! 

     [ "fret lobster" ]

    1: Term for a "capo", the clamp-like device placed on the fretboard of a guitar to change its tuning.

      * e.g.,  ... "if you have your heart set on playing it in E flat, you could always just use a fret lobster" 

     [ "Fret One" ]

    1: Fret one is a term coined by Saskatoon band Stallions in reference to the way a guitar is played during an extra heavy section of music. In order to produce a more dissonant sound, the guitarist plays chugs while holding the low E string down on the first fret. In order for it to sound correct the low E string must be drop-tuned to a D.

      * e.g.,  ... "Fuuuuck, that fret one made the breakdown balls heavy." "If Slipknot played on fret one they'd be the perfect band." 


     [ "Fret One" ]

    2: Examples of bands that have fret ones: Stallions, Blind Witness, Strangers and A Textbook Tragedy.

     [ "Up the fret" ]

    1: ‘Up the fret’ is used in place of words like stressed, annoyed or anxious. It originated in Melbourne Australia and is a reference to the fret board of a guitar as well as the word fretful. How ‘up the fret’ (stressed) you are is quantifiable by placing a number between 1-24 after the phrase (fret 1 being almost completely relaxed)

      * e.g.,  ... Example 1: Dude... I’m so up the fret right now. That guy just pissed in my living room. Example 2: AHHHH!!! I just missed my flight by like 2 minutes! I’m easily at fret 20! 

     [ "fretting elephant" ]

    1: When a dude fucks a fat chick and never calls her back. She sits at home wondering when he will call her. It never happens. Ever.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude. I think I got a fretting elephant on my hands. She wont stop calling me. Yeah dude. She needs to take the hint. I won't ever call her back. 

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