afeared
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English aferd.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /əˈfɪə(ɹ)d/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
- Homophones: afeard, affeard, affeared
Verb[edit]
afeared
- simple past and past participle of afear
Adjective[edit]
afeared
- (dialectal) Afraid.
- 1886, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:
- I ain't afeared of anything on this side o' the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o' the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.
Scots[edit]
Adjective[edit]
afeared (comparative mair afeared, superlative maist afeared)
References[edit]
- “afeared, ppl.adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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