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fratch
fratch, v. Now chiefly dial. (frætʃ) [? onomatopœic.] † 1. intr. To make a harsh or strident noise; to creak. Obs.c 1440 Promp. Parv. 76/1 Cherkyn, or chorkyn, or fracchyn, as newe cartys or plowys, strideo. 2. To disagree, quarrel, scold.1714 Duchess of Marlborough in Madresfield Lett. (1875) 90, I...
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Cumbrian dialect
means a cloth
crack/craic gossip "ow marra get some better crack"
cur dog sheepdog - collie
cyak cake
den toilet
doilem idiot
dookers swimming trunks
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fretchard
† fretchard Obs.—1 [f. *fretch, fratch v. + -ard.] A fretful or peevish person.a 1640 W. Fenner Sacrifice Faithf. (1648) 15 The angrie fretchard praies for patience and meeknesse and yet sets downe without it.
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fractious
fractious, a. (ˈfrækʃəs) [f. fraction (sense 3), after captious, etc. The original sense seems to have been ‘disposed to make breaches, factious’; the more trivial use now current may be due to association with fratch.] Refractory, unruly; now chiefly, cross, fretful, peevish; esp. of children.1725 ...
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frab
frab, v. dial. (fræb) [Onomatopœic; cf. crab and fret, fratch, etc.] trans. To harass, worry.1848 Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton iv. (1882) 7/2, I was very frabbit with him. 1853 ― Ruth III. xii. 298, I was not kind to you. I frabbed you, and plagued you from the first. 1865 B. Brierley Irkdale I. 34 What...
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