fratchety

adj

fratchety

adj

Etymology Apparently from fratch + *-et (frequentative ending) + -y.

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UK, Dialectal argumentative

[…] He hadn't hardly got over his illness and he was fratchety, like, as sick people will be.1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors:

Related terms: fratch

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