fraid - What does it mean?

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