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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A pronunciation of English associated with frat boys, said to be similar to the valley girl accent and to include vocal fry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US
Qualifier: university slang
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree English frat Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *keh2n-der. Proto-Italic *kanō Latin canō Latin accinō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus ▲ Ancient Greek προσῳδῐ́ᾱ (prosōidĭ́ā)calq. Medieval Latin accentusbor. Middle French accentbor. Anglo-Norman accentbor. Middle English accent English accent blend English fraccent Blend of frat + accent.
