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Fraidy vs Fraid - What's the difference?

fraidy | fraid |

As adjectives the difference between fraidy and fraid

is that fraidy is afraid while fraid is eye dialect of lang=en.

fraidy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (US, childish) afraid.
  • (US, childish) cowardly.

    • Derived terms

    * fraidy cat

    Usage notes

    * The forms fraidier'' and ''fraidiest are very rare.

    Anagrams

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    fraid

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Edith Van Dyne, title=Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Guess ye'd better speak to 'em about spendin' so much money, Mr. Merrick; I'm 'fraid they may need it some day." " }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1873, author=Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, title=The Gilded Age, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When a man is 'gaged in prah, he ain't fraid o' nuffin--dey can't nuffin tetch him." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1872, author=Harriet Beecher Stowe, title=Oldtown Fireside Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="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. }} ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Adjective

    (m)
  • cold

    • Derived terms

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