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English
Adjective
fraid
- Pronunciation spelling of afraid.
1912, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation:Guess ye'd better speak to 'em about spendin' so much money, Mr. Merrick; I'm 'fraid they may need it some day." "
1873, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Complete:When a man is 'gaged in prah, he ain't fraid o' nuffin--dey can't nuffin tetch him."
1872, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Fireside Stories:"Yis," he continued, "there was a time when folks said I could a hed Miry ef I'd asked her; and I putty much think so myself, but I didn't say nothin': marriage is allers kind o'ventursome; an' Miry had such up-and-down kind o' ways, I was sort o' fraid on't.
Anagrams
Norman
Etymology
From Old French freid, froit, from Latin frīgidus (“cold, cool, chilling”) (through a contracted Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form fridus or frigdus, fricdus), from frīgeō, frīgēre (“be cold”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
fraid m
- (Jersey) cold
Antonyms
Derived terms
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin frīgidus (“cold, cool, chilling”) (through a contracted Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form fridus or frigdus, fricdus), from frīgeō, frīgēre (“be cold”).
Adjective
fraid m (feminine singular fraida, masculine plural fraids, feminine plural fraidas)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) cold
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