| 释义 |
'fraid, a. colloq.|freɪd|
[aphet. f. afraid ppl. a.]
(I'm) afraid. So (chiefly Children's) phr. fraid cat (also fraidy cat), a coward. Cf. frayed ppl. a.1
1888Kipling Story of Gadsbys (1889) 85 'Fraid you won't be entered in the Stud Book correctly unless you go Home? 1895― Day's Work (1898) 195 Wish I could, Lizzie. 'Fraid I can't. 1908G. Jekyll Children & Gardens (caption, facing p. 64), 'Fraid I've dropped a stitch! c1910–23in Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. (1944) 'Fraidy cat. 1912Dialect Notes III. 576 Fraid-cat, a coward. 1942C. Morley Thorofare xlix. 286 You're an old fraid-cat. 1945N. L. McClung Stream runs Fast iv. 26 He might not have been so composed, if he had known he had two fraidy-cats to take care of him. 1968C. Aird Henrietta Who? i. 4 ‘Accident?’ shouted the man at the wheel... ‘'Fraid so,’ shouted back Ford. 1968D. Gray Died in Red xiii. 65 ‘So you won't go on working here?’ ‘No. 'Fraid not.’ |