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fratch

American  
[frach] / frætʃ /

verb (used with object)

  1. to disagree; quarrel.


noun

  1. a quarrel; argument; dispute.

fratch British  
/ frætʃ /

noun

  1. dialect a quarrel

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of fratch

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


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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 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 Harold Bindloss

"Why, the last fratch of all, when Wilson gat the sneck posset frae Shoulthwaite," said Matthew.

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

Simon does reight to fratch," said another, "Michael has noa business allus to be draggin in his dowter if shoo is a schooil mistress.

From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by John Hartley

Weel," he said, "you can have aw t' peat you want and we willunt fratch if you pay me nowt.

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

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