afeared
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English aferd.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /əˈfɪə(ɹ)d/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
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.
Derived terms
[edit]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, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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