Meanings
freet1
plural freets · alternative fret · alternative Scotland freit
- A superstitious notion or belief with respect to any action or event as a good or a bad omen; a superstition.
If the old “freet” be true “ that those who fall when at the handspake aneath the corpse, will soon be the corpse themsell," there would soon be a good few corspes; for at these "druken" concerns, the bearers are falling some of them every now and then.
1824, John Mactaggart, The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, page 263 - A superstitious rite, observance, wont, or practice.
Oh, sister Ellen, sister sweet, Come with me to the hill I pray, And I will prove that blessed freet!
1903, Samual Ferguson, The Fairy Well of Lagnanay - A charm.
Freet2
Origin
freet · noun
- Proto-Germanic*frihtiz“news, report, message, question, prophecy”
- Old Norsefrétt“news, intelligence, inquiry, inquiry about the future”
- Middle Englishfrete“superstition”
- Englishfreet
From Middle English frete (“superstition”), from Old Norse frétt (“news, intelligence, inquiry, inquiry about the future”), from Proto-Germanic *frihtiz (“news, report, message, question, prophecy”), related to Icelandic frétt (“news”), Icelandic frétta (“to review”), Danish and Norwegian fritte (“to question, interrogate”), English frain (“to question”). More at frain.
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Full word history & related roots →Freet · proper noun
- GermanFried
- EnglishFreet
Americanized form of German Fried.
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freet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/freet
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