Fretting

What do we mean by fretting?

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

To chafe or irritate; to worry.

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

In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.

To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.

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

To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.

To be anxious, to worry.

To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.

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

To stress or get mad at something small -frettin Urban Dictionary

Do not become anxious about something. Urban Dictionary

A marker on the neck of a guitar showing where to press down the string to produce the desired note. Urban Dictionary

Angry,pissed; adj. Urban Dictionary

When you spend too much time fretting over your Facebook privacy settings... Urban Dictionary

A cooler way to say "don't worry." Urban Dictionary

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

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

‘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) Urban Dictionary

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. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to fretting:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word fretting:
plucking, fret, strumming, dulcimer, frets, fingerboard, plucked, precession, corrosion, diatonic, weathering, fatigue, chord, barring, chords, strings, fingers, string, sounded, finger, picking, slide, hand, thumb, wear, neck, technique, hammer, notes, stress, guitar, picked, dress, pitch, techniques, note, instrument, occurs, contact, hands, damage, materials, scale, easily, bass, strength, produce, metal, steel, sound, playing, plays.

Words that rhyme with fretting:
vetting, setting, abetting, getting, netting, bloodletting, betting, forgetting, sweating, letting, petting, upsetting, interpreting, regretting, besetting, typesetting, offsetting, begetting, retting, wetting, jetting, whetting, threating, thermosetting, stetting, place setting, bletting, trend setting, petong, stage setting, fetting, cigarette hung, get hung, get ting, net hung, reseting, set ting, sweat hung, threat hung, wet tongue, yeh ting, yet hung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe fretting:
constant, much, icy, continual, more, good, useless, little, crystal, perpetual, busy, long, less, quit, impatient, further, excessive, sleepy, worth, endless, eternal, ceaseless, idle, former, childish, peevish, considerable, nervous, needless, usual, awake, strident, restless, cool, red, fine, silent, incessant, quick, past, sad, anxious, fruitless, dulcet, continuous, unprofitable, sore, ornamental, vain, chromatic, foolish, bitter, mechanical, undue, trivial, microscopic, futile, pure, severe, continued, necessary, unnecessary, fidgety, anguished, ever, fearful, lonely, degenerate, tearful, pelleted, simultaneous, irksome, aimless.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective fretting:
wear, damage, child, baby, hand, fatigue, scar, test, corrosion, care, crack, surface, gust, mind, heel, voice, plague, habit, mood, desire, wind, tests, contact, spirit, problems, hides, strength, dispute, distinctness, point, worms, sorrow, experiments, water, specimen, disagreement, mechanism, failure, sound, anxieties, assembly, twang, mother, map, parent, spell, limit, problem, purposes, contacts, feare, sort, couple, cycles, situation, condition, face, torrent, brain, spells, shirt, direction, case, spread, thorn.

Consonant match to fretting:
fraughting, fruiting, fritting, freighting, frighting, fruit hung.

Words that sound like fretting:
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