frit

frit · noun, verb¹

1. Italian · derived fromfritta f“fried”
2. French · derived fromfritte
3. English todayfrit

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

frit · adjective, noun²

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.