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fratch, v. Now chiefly dial.|frætʃ|
[? onomatopœic.]
†1. intr. To make a harsh or strident noise; to creak. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 76/1 Cherkyn, or chorkyn, or fracchyn, as newe cartys or plowys, strideo.
2. To disagree, quarrel, scold.
1714Duchess of Marlborough in Madresfield Lett. (1875) 90, I am intirely of your Mind, that it is not the D. of Marl.'s businesse to fratch. 1764T. Bridges Homer Travest. (1797) II. 54 While thus they fratch'd, the Greeks were getting Just finish'd as the sun was setting. 1802R. Anderson Cumberld. Ball. (1805) 44 But let them fratch on. 1863Mrs. Toogood Yorksh. Dial., Joseph and his brethren got together fratching, and they put him in a pit. 1868Holme Lee B. Godfrey xiii. 72 Mr. Godfrey and father can talk together for hours without fratching.
Hence fratched ppl. a. In quot. transf. of a horse: restive, vicious; ˈfratching vbl. n., a scolding; ˈfratching ppl. a. (also ˈfratcheous, ˈfratchety, ˈfratchy adjs.), that scolds, quarrelsome. Also fratch n., a disagreement, quarrel; ˈfratcher, one who quarrels, a scold.
c1746J. Collier (T. Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 52 They'd'n some o' the warst fratchingst company as eer I saigh. 1764T. Bridges Homer Travest. (1797) II. 119 Juno, that fratching quean, pretended Her sense of smelling was offended. 1802R. Anderson Cumberld. Ball. (1805) 23, I mun heame. Or I's git a deuce of a fratchin. 1803Ibid. 64 He..aye crack'd his thoums for a bit of a fratch. 1807J. Stagg Poems 6 Blackan o' Warton, he was there..An fratcheous Gweordy Barns. 1847Halliw., Fratched, restive, vicious, applied to a horse. Ibid., Fratcher, a scold; one who brags much. North. 1854Dickens Hard T. ii. iv, ‘I ha' never had no fratch afore sin ever I were born wi' any o' my like.’ 1875Waugh Tufts Heather, Old Cronies vii. Wks. 1881 IV. 285 Come, come, lads; let's ha' no fratchin'! 1875Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘A fratchy body’. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Fratchety, peevish, irritable. |