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 mind I told him what he said over and over again about his fratch with that Garth."

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

We won't fratch; there's not much in arguing.

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

Soa they went on, throo little to moor, till they'd a regular fratch, an' as sooin as' he'd getten his dinner, he off to his wark, an' shoo to her mother's.

From Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour from his Popular Writings by Hartley, John