FRATOIS (N.) frat-‘twah A hearty slang or patois used by bonhomous men that makes them sound like back-slapping fraternity brothers. Usage: “Sweet!” Chris yelped as he saw Mark, one carrel away, arc a wad of trash into the wastebasket of a distant cubicle. “Thanks, bro!” Mark responded, grinning. “You the man!” Chris replied, fist-bumping his colleague. And Melanie sighed, tired of hearing her 40-year-old co-workers speak fratois, as if they were college boys in ΔΚΕ, or extras in a Judd Apatow movie.
-§ An egret’s plume to Michael Schulman, for the word.
Text © Liesl Schillinger 8/9/2011 Image ©Elizabeth Zechel, 8/9/2011
