Chafes

Usage examples of frets.

So at one moment I would be twiddling with my fingers as on the frets of a viella, and the next I would be using my lips in the manner of playing a dulzaina, and the next I would be flutter-tonguing in the way a flutist blows his flute.

It frets me so awfully to see you lingering here when baby wants her comforts.

But, as was to be expected from so much heat and bluster, the tumult subsided as fresher frets or more profitable engagements distracted the attention of the injured.

Whenever a man gets reckless about what happens to himself, and frets over what may happen to his friend, then he begins to take on weight!

Lucy frets at the postponement of seeing him, but it does not touch her looks.