afeared
English
Etymology
From Middle English aferd.
Pronunciation
Adjective
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.
Derived terms
Scots
Adjective
afeared (comparative mair afeared, superlative maist afeared)
- (archaic) Alternative form of afeard
References
- “afeared, ppl.adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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