Definition of Fratchy

1. quarrelsome [adj FRATCHIER, FRATCHIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fratchy

frascati
frascatis
frat
frat boy
frat boys
frat house
frat houses
frataxin
fratboy
fratboys
fratch
fratches
fratchier
fratchy (current term)
frate
frater
frateries
fraternal
fraternal nephew
fraternal nephews
fraternal niece
fraternal nieces
fraternal twin
fraternalisation
fraternalise

Literary usage of Fratchy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1879)
"He's that fratchy and auld- farrand he num gan' 's own gaat, if ye weant chawk him.' Being too valuable to be choked, he got his own way always. ..."

2. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe). by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"She thought she would see how she'd frame. That's what she seemed to frame for most. He don't seem to frame amiss. fratchy, adj.—Peevish, irritable. ..."

3. My Russian Year by Rothay Reynolds (1913)
"Tatiana, the invaluable Tatiana with the gift of St. Anthony of Padua for finding anything anybody lost, became fratchy. The liberty of the kitchen was ..."

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