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fratire

fratire noun: a politically incorrect and overtly masculine style of non-fiction written for and marketed to young men.

Noun

fratire (uncountable)

  1. A politically incorrect and overtly masculine style of non-fiction written for and marketed to young men.
    • It is up to you to prove that guy did not use mathematics in his livelihood. he wrote a comedy/fratire book.....that doesn't require mathematics to do.2013, Michael Press, “Re: maybe this is how I should have gotten married....”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet)
    • For those who have never encountered Maddox before: This is the website of a man who made himself successful in the early 200X's by writing a kind of vitriolic, shouty, bro-lit/fratire. Particularly famous is his fan mail response where he mocks children's artwork […]2013, Alec Zorab, “Re: [scala-functional] Re: Math doesn't suck, you do.”, in scala-functional (Usenet)

Origin of fratire

Blend of frat + satire.

Questions about fratire

What does fratire mean?
Fratire means a politically incorrect and overtly masculine style of non-fiction written for and marketed to young men.
What part of speech is fratire?
Fratire is a noun.

Words near fratire in the dictionary

  1. Fraticelli
  2. Fraticellian
  3. Fraticellians
  4. Fraticellis
  5. Frating
  6. fratire
  7. fratlike
  8. fratman
  9. fratmen
  10. fratorities
  11. fratority

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