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frotter

/fʁɔ.te/

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verb/fʁɔ.te/

to rub, chafe; to scrub, scour; to scrape; to stone; to rub (someone) in the wrong way, to get on (someone)'s bad side

Ne te frotte pas à elle! Elle a beaucoup d'ennuis.Don't get on her bad side! She has a lot of issues.

From Middle French frotter, from Old French froter (“to stroke, wipe, rub”), of uncertain origin. Generally assumed to be from Latin frictāre, frequentative of fricāre through its past participle frictus (“rubbed”).