different between fratchy vs fratch

English

fratch +? -y

fratchy (comparative more fratchy, superlative most fratchy)

From Middle English fracchen (“to make a harsh or strident noise; creak”). Cognate with Scots fratch (“to quarrel”).

fratch (plural fratches)

(Britain) A dispute, a quarrel; a fight or brawl.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, 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'.

fratch (third-person singular simple present fratches, present participle fratching, simple past and past participle fratched)

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

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