fratch

American  

[frach] / frætʃ /

verb (used with object)

1. to disagree; quarrel.

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noun

1. a quarrel; argument; dispute.

fratch British  

/ frætʃ /

noun

1. dialect a quarrel

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Other Word Forms

• fratcher noun
• fratchy adjective

Etymology

Origin of fratch

1400–50; late Middle English fracchen to creak, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

You may be interested in still another inelegant variation which I ran across in Webster's; namely, the word "fratch."

From Time Magazine Archive

I ha' never had no fratch afore, sin ever I were born, wi' any o' my like; Gonnows I ha' none now that's o' my makin'.

From Hard Times by Dickens, Charles

I ken something o' what you're feeling; aw t' same you've got to fratch.

From The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Bindloss, Harold

"Nay, now, when ye ax the like o' that—" Tom, the postman, stopped his grindstone and snuckered huskily: "Maybe he's had a fratch with yon brother—yon Hugh."

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir

They fidge an they fume an they flutter,    Like a burd catched wi lime on a tree, And they'll fratch wi ther own breead an butter:—    But aw wodn't for all aw could see.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John