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fratting, vbl. n. slang.
[Short for fraternizing vbl. n.]
Friendly relations between British and American soldiers and German women in the occupied parts of Western Germany after the war of 1939–45. Also frat v. intr., to fraternize; frat n.2, a woman met by ‘fratting’; also as short for ‘fratting’; ˈfratter, one who ‘frats’. Also transf.
1945New Statesman 14 July 20/3 ‘Fraternisation’ has become a word denoting sexual intercourse (‘frats’ and ‘fratting’ are new Army words). 1945Manch. Guardian 18 July 8/4 (caption) Frat or Non-frat. 1946J. Irving Royal Navalese 81 A piece of Frat, Wren-language for any attractive young woman—ex-enemy—in occupied territory. 1946S. Spender European Witness i. 13 At the messes most of the conversation was about ‘fratting’. 1949G. Cotterell Randle in Springtime i. 8 Then, take my frat I go with, what harm did she ever do? Ibid. ii. ii. 45 You see all the men here go fratting and it simply isn't fair on us girls... I can't see what they see in these German women. Ibid. v. 285 So he's married... I bet she doesn't know what a shameless old fratter you were. 1955Times 11 May 15/3 To an outside observer, brotherly love is not the most striking feature of the Labour Party at this moment—apart, perhaps, from a little ‘fratting’ with a certain Liberal lady, with an obvious eye to the main chance. 1957M. K. Joseph I'll soldier no More (1958) 13 ‘He was fratting, wasn't he?’ ‘Sure—dark piece, lives up the Ludwigstrasse.’ Ibid., Maybe he'd've rather stayed with his frat. 1965J. Fleming Nothing is Number ii. iv. 78 He did frat, I mean make friends a bit with the people you're thinking of. |