Eright vs Fright - What's the difference?
eright | fright |
To invest with a right.
* 1908 (original 1556), John Heywood, John Stephen Farmer, The spider and the fly :
A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2:
Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
As verbs the difference between eright and fright
is that eright is to invest with a right while fright is (archaic) to frighten.As a noun fright is
a state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.eright
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Verb
(en verb)- To possession here any fly erighting , Then, without more words by mouth or enditing.
fright
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Noun
(wikipedia fright)- With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
- Her maids were old, and if she took a new one,
- You might be sure she was a perfect fright ;
- She did this during even her husband's life
- I recommend as much to every wife.