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fratty

/ˈfɹæti/

fratty adjective: resembling or characteristic of a frat boy in behavior or appearance.

Adjective

fratty (comparative frattier, superlative frattiest)

  1. (US, slang) Resembling or characteristic of a frat boy in behavior or appearance.
    • I can never hear the professor because these fratty guys spend the whole class talking about partying.
    • Industrials is the frattiest banking group at Anderson, and that's saying something. This is probably their only free hour all week, and they're going to want to have a good time with their friends.2019, Madeleine Henry, Breathe In, Cash Out, page 189

Examples of fratty in a sentence

  • Heinerscheid said that some of Bud Light’s previous advertisements had “fratty, sort of out-of-touch humor” and that the company would need to be more inclusive for its demographic to grow.2023 April 25, Amanda Holpuch, Julie Creswell, quoting Alissa Heinerscheid, “2 Executives Are on Leave After Bud Light Promotion With...
  • (The boys they consort with tend to be of the fratty variety.)2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:

Forms of fratty

comparativefrattier
superlativefrattiest

Origin of fratty

From frat + -y.

Words formed from fratty

Words that rhyme with fratty

6 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about fratty

What does fratty mean?
Fratty means resembling or characteristic of a frat boy in behavior or appearance.
How do you use fratty in a sentence?
Heinerscheid said that some of Bud Light’s previous advertisements had “fratty, sort of out-of-touch humor” and that the company would need to be more inclusive for its demographic to grow.
What part of speech is fratty?
Fratty is an adjective.
How do you pronounce fratty?
Fratty is pronounced /ˈfɹæti/.

Words near fratty in the dictionary

  1. Frattinis
  2. frattish
  3. Fratto
  4. Fratton
  5. Frattos
  6. fratty
  7. Fraturday
  8. Fraturdays
  9. Fratus
  10. Fratuses
  11. frau

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