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Brawl vs Fratch - What's the difference?

brawl | fratch |

As nouns the difference between brawl and fratch

is that brawl is a fight, usually with a large number of people involved while fratch is a dispute, a quarrel; a fight or brawl.

As verbs the difference between brawl and fratch

is that brawl is to engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel while fratch is to argue, to quarrel; to fight.

brawl

English

(wikipedia brawl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fight, usually with a large number of people involved.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
  • To complain loudly; to scold.
  • To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
  • * Wordsworth
    • where the brook brawls along the painful road

    fratch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (UK) A dispute, a quarrel; a fight or brawl.
  • * 1854 , , Hard Times
    • 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'.

    Derived terms

    * fratchety * fratchy

    Verb

  • (UK, Yorkshire) To argue, to quarrel; to fight.
  • * 1915 , , The Measure of a Man ,
    • "I am just talking to relieve myself, John. I know better than to fratch with anyone—at least I think I do."

    References

    * Middle English Dictionary , Hans Kurath, 2001, University of Michigan Press. * Concise Dictionary of English Etymology , Walter W. Skeat, 1998, Wordsworth Editions Ltd.