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

Fratze f (genitive Fratze, plural Fratzen)

  1. sneer; grimace; evil smile

Declension
Declension of Fratze [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Fratze die Fratzen
genitive einer der Fratze der Fratzen
dative einer der Fratze den Fratzen
accusative eine die Fratze die Fratzen

Descendants
  • → Dutch: frats

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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