fraid

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English

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Adjective

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fraid

  1. Pronunciation spelling of afraid.
    • 1912, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation[1]:
      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[2]:
      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[3]:
      "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.

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Etymology

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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).

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Adjective

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fraid m

  1. (Jersey) cold

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Etymology

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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

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fraid m (feminine singular fraida, masculine plural fraids, feminine plural fraidas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) cold

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