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plural fratches
(UK) A dispute, a quarrel; a fight or brawl. quotations examples
-I ha' never had no fratch afore, sin ever I were born, wi' any o' my like; Gonnows I ha' none now that's o' my makin'.
1854, Charles Dickens, “read online”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […]
third-person singular simple present fratches, present participle fratching, simple past and past participle fratched
(UK, Yorkshire) To argue, to quarrel; to fight. quotations examples
"I am just talking to relieve myself, John. I know better than to fratch with anyone—at least I think I do."
1915, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Measure of a Man