fraid

Pronunciation spelling of afraid.

Adjective

  1. Pronunciation spelling of afraid.
    • Guess ye'd better speak to 'em about spendin' so much money, Mr. Merrick; I'm 'fraid they may need it some day." " - 1912, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation:
    • When a man is 'gaged in prah, he ain't fraid o' nuffin--dey can't nuffin tetch him." - 1873, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Complete:
    • "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...