fratchety
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Apparently from fratch + *-et (frequentative ending) + -y.
Adjective
[edit]fratchety (comparative more fratchety, superlative most fratchety)
- (UK, dialect) argumentative
- 1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors:
- […] He hadn't hardly got over his illness and he was fratchety, like, as sick people will be.