afeared
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.
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.