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Scary vs Fraid - What's the difference?

scary | fraid |

As adjectives the difference between scary and fraid

is that scary is causing or able to cause fright while fraid is eye dialect of lang=en.

As a noun scary

is barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

scary

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(er)
  • Causing or able to cause fright
    • The tiger's jaws were scary.
    She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film.
  • (US, colloquial, dated) Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy.
    • (Whittier)
  • * 1916 , Texas Department of Agriculture, Bulletin (issues 47-57), page 150:
    • And let us say to these interests that, until the Buy-It-Made-In-Texas movement co-operates with the farmers, we are going to be a little scary of the snare.
    Synonyms
    * (causing fright) frightening

    Etymology 2

    From dialectal English .

    Noun

  • Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

    • 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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