Fratze

German

Etymology

Shortened from Fratzengesicht (“joker face”), from fratzen (“silly talk, jokes”), probably borrowed from Italian frasche (“nonsense”), plural of frasca (“vanity, caprice”).[1]

Cognate with Dutch fratsen.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfʁat͡sə/
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Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. sneer; grimace; evil smile

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants
  • → Dutch: frats

Noun

Fratze

  1. nominative/genitive/accusative plural of Fratz

References
  1. “Fratze” in Duden online
  2. Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Fratze”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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