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語源 1

Either from French fritte, from frit (“fried”), or else from Italian fritta f (“fried”).

名詞

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)
3. Any of many black enamel dots baked in a graded pattern onto the glass around the edge of a windshield.
   • 2025 May 6, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Fact Frenzy on X ‎:

     Made from ceramic paint baked directly into the glass, frits help bond the windscreen to the vehicle by providing a textured surface for adhesives and shielding them from damaging UV rays.

派生語

• frit brick
• fritless
• fritware

動詞

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.
   • 1831, Benjamin Silliman, Elements of Chemistry:

     equal parts of the calcined and roasted ore, of ground flints and potash, are fritted together and then fused

語源 2

Dialectal past participle of fright (“frighten”), formed on the model of bite:bit and light:lit. Compare the parallel formation fit (“fought”).

By the late 20th century, largely confined to the Lincolnshire dialect, but adopted into political slang in the 1980s from the speeches of Grantham-born Margaret Thatcher.

形容詞

frit (comparative more frit, superlative most frit)

1. (UK, regional, now especially politics) 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, published 2016, page 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.”

名詞

frit (plural frits)

1. (UK politics, derogatory) A politician who does not perform some action (for example answering a question or calling a vote) out of fear of losing.
   • 2022, Peter Fortune, “Impact of ULEZ expansion and road charging (Supplementary)”, in Questions to the Mayor (London Assembly)‎:

     Why are you not going to bother? You are scared? You are a frit? Is that the problem?

語源 3

名詞

frit (plural frits)

1. A frit fly.

参考

• frit away
• frit fly

アナグラム

• FTIR, rift

名詞

frit n (indeclinable)

1. awn

同意語

• arista

参照

• “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.