frit

French fritte, from frit (“fried”).

frit (countable and uncountable, plural frits)

1. A fused mixture of materials used to make glass.
2. (archaeology) A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age)

• frit brick
• fritless

frit (third-person singular simple present frits, present participle fritting, simple past and past participle fritted)

1. To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture
2. To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.

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Dialectal form of past participle of to fright.

frit (comparative more frit, superlative most frit)

1. (Britain, regional) Frightened.
   • 1983 Margaret Thatcher, Prime minister's questions, 19 April:

     The right hon. Gentleman is afraid of an election, is he? Afraid? Frightened? Frit? Could not take it? Cannot stand it? If I were going to cut and run, I should have gone after the Falklands.

   • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright 2016, p. 272:

     “We shoulder life. We know its ins and outs. We've felt the draught at either end of it. What you're most frit of, that's our bread and jam, and none of us ain't got no time to spare on ignorant, bad-mannered little boys.”

frit (plural frits)

1. A frit fly.

• frit away
• frit fly

• FTIR, rift

frit

1. neuter singular of fri

From Old French, from Latin frīctus.

frit m (feminine singular frite, masculine plural frits, feminine plural frites)

1. past participle of frire

frit (feminine singular frite, masculine plural frits, feminine plural frites)

1. fried

• frire
• friture

• frite

• “frit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Of uncertain origin;[1] proposed derivations include:

• From a root common to Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd-. Cognates include Latin frutex (“shrub”), Old English brēotan (“to break”), Old Irish broth (“awn”) and maybe Lithuanian brùzgas (“bush, shrub”).

frit n (indeclinable)

1. awn

• arista

• frit in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• frit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Old French fruit, from Latin fructus.

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frit m (plural frits)

1. (Jersey, France) fruit

• gardîn à frit (“orchard”) (Jersey)

• friut

frit

1. second-person singular of fri