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fraid

1. (US, African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of afraid.
   • 1912, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation‎^[1]:

     Guess ye'd better speak to 'em about spendin' so much money, Mr. Merrick; I'm 'fraid they may need it some day." "

   • 1873, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Complete‎^[2]:

     When a man is 'gaged in prah, he ain't fraid o' nuffin--dey can't nuffin tetch him."

   • 1872, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Fireside Stories‎^[3]:

     "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 kind o' ways, I was sort o' fraid on't.

   • 1984, Ray Parker Jr., “Ghostbusters”, performed by Ray Parker Jr., Arista:

     I ain't fraid of no ghost

• ARFID, Farid, Frida, faird, radif

• fré, fréi (Guernsey)
• freid (continental)

From Old French freid, froit, from Latin frīgidus (“cold, cool, chilling”) (through a contracted Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form fridus or frigdus, fricdus), from frīgeō, frīgēre (“be cold”).

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fraid m

1. (Jersey) cold

• caûd

• coq à ieau fraide (“cold water tap”)
• La Fraide Dgèrre (“the Cold War”)
• fraidement (“coldly”)

• fred (Sutsilvan)
• freid (Sursilvan, Surmiran)

From Latin frīgidus (“cold, cool, chilling”) (through a contracted Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form fridus or frigdus, fricdus), from frīgeō, frīgēre (“be cold”).

fraid m (feminine singular fraida, masculine plural fraids, feminine plural fraidas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) cold

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) frestg
• (Puter) fras-ch
• (Vallader) frais-ch