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Topic: BABIES

Date: 1600-1700
Origin: fraction 'lack of agreement' (16-18 centuries)

fractious

 adjective
     
frac‧tious
DHB someone who is fractious becomes angry very easily [= irritable]:
Children become fractious when they are tired.
—fractiousness noun [uncountable]
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