0 not brave enough to do something; frightened: --
Before the show Mrs Thatcher was distinctly nervous, or frit, as she would say.
"Go on," she urged. "Don't be frit."
1 a mixture of substances that are heated to a high temperature until they form glass. They can then be crushed into a powder and used in making things such as porcelain: --
2 someone, especially a politician, who is not brave enough to do something: --
For wet application of enamel, a slurry of frit suspended in water must be created.
Then the refined mixture was taken, heated and shaped into blocks called frit.
They have had no dialogue with local authorities, except to say that they are frit and that they do not like the political consequences; in that they may be right.
Is he meant to be frit?
Why is he so frit about it?
I am certainly not frit.
Is that simply because he is frit at being confronted by the arguements?
Is not it now obvious that her own personal position on this issue is utterly impossible to justify, and that she is just plain frit?
