afeared
adj/əˈfɪə(ɹ)d/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English aferd.
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Dialectal Afraid.
- 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.1886, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:
- Derived terms
- unafeared