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fratchety

fratchety adjective: argumentative.

Adjective

fratchety (comparative more fratchety, superlative most fratchety)

  1. (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

Forms of fratchety

comparativemore fratchety
superlativemost fratchety

Origin of fratchety

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

Questions about fratchety

What does fratchety mean?
Fratchety means argumentative.
What part of speech is fratchety?
Fratchety is an adjective.

Words near fratchety in the dictionary

  1. fratboy
  2. fratboys
  3. fratch
  4. fratched
  5. fratches
  6. fratchety
  7. fratching
  8. fratchy
  9. frate
  10. frater
  11. frater house

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