Meaning
A folk name for a patch of skin disease — a dry, scaly, itchy or discoloured spot such as eczema, a fungal patch, or a stubborn skin eruption. To have a 'tetter' is to carry one of these persistent skin marks, and the word, an old English term kept alive in Jamaica, covers a range of everyday skin troubles that country remedies of bush and grease are used to treat.
Examples
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A tetter come up pon him face.
A scaly patch came up on his face.
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Di tetter dry an itchy.
The skin patch is dry and itchy.
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Granny rub bush pon di tetter.
Granny rubbed herbs on the skin patch.
Origin
From old English 'tetter' (a skin eruption), kept in Jamaican usage; a scaly skin patch. See [[ringworm]], [[cro-cro]].
How it’s used
A patch of skin disease (eczema, fungal patch, discoloured spot). See [[ringworm]], [[cro-cro]].