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make-frays

make-frays is the plural of make-fray.

Meaning of make-fray

Noun

make-fray (plural make-frays)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who instigates quarrels.
    • If brabbling Make-fray, at each fair and size, / Picks quarrels for to show his valiantize,a. 1656, Joseph Hall, “Satire IV”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume 5, published 1810, page 276
    Synonyms:
    breedbate, brewbate, makebate, make-debate

Questions about make-frays

What is make-frays the plural of?
Make-frays is the plural of make-fray.

Words near make-frays in the dictionary

  1. make-debate
  2. make-debates
  3. make-do
  4. make-dos
  5. make-fray
  6. make-frays
  7. make-good
  8. make-hawk
  9. make-hawks
  10. make-king
  11. make-koshi

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