different between wratch vs fratch

English

wratch (plural wratches)

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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