fretty

• Rhymes: -ɛti

fret (“lattice, trellis”) +‎ -y.

fretty (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister.

   The coats of various noble British families were originally fretty, but later 'simplified' to a single fret

• In heraldic descriptions, the term is used between the color of the field and the color (most often a metal) of the bendlets to specify the tinctures of the fretwork.

• fretsaw
• fretwork

fret (“to worry”) +‎ -y.

fretty (comparative more fretty, superlative most fretty)

1. Inclined to fret, agitated, worrying.
2. (colloquial) Inflamed, like a sore.

• (inclined to fret): fretful, fretsome