英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /fɹæt͡ʃ/

名詞

fratch (複数形 fratches)

1. (UK) A dispute, a quarrel; a fight or brawl.
   • 1854, Charles Dickens, “read online”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], OCLC 4389957:

     -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'.

派生語

• fratchety
• fratchy

動詞

fratch (三人称単数 現在形 fratches, 現在分詞 fratching, 過去形および過去分詞形 fratched)

1. (UK, Yorkshire) To argue, to quarrel; to fight.
   • 1915, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Measure of a Man:

     "I am just talking to relieve myself, John. I know better than to fratch with anyone—at least I think I do."

参照

• Middle English Dictionary, Hans Kurath, 2001, University of Michigan Press.
• Concise Dictionary of English Etymology, Walter W. Skeat, 1998, Wordsworth Editions Ltd.