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单词 afleyed
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afleyedadj.

Brit. /əˈfleɪd/, U.S. /əˈfleɪd/, Scottish English /əˈfled/
Forms: Old English afliged, late Middle English 1800s aflayed, 1600s afflayed, 1700s–1800s afley'd (Scottish), 1800s afflaid, 1800s affley'd, 1800s 2000s– aflaid.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: afley v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < afley v. + -ed suffix1. With sense 2 perhaps compare earlier afflict adj. (especially the α. forms at that entry) and slightly later aflocht adj.; compare also earlier afraid adj.In the 20th cent., a form aflaid is frequently attested in representations of a child's or a non-native speaker's pronunciation of afraid adj., independently of the uses illustrated here.
Scottish and English regional (northern) in later use.
1. Of a person: that has turned his or her back on something. In quot.: apostate. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
eOE (Kentish) Glosses to Proverbs of Solomon (Vesp. D.vi) in U. Kalbhen Kentische Glossen (2003) 121 Homo apostata : afliged mon, .i. retrogradiens.
2. In predicative use: frightened, afraid.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > [adjective]
affrightedOE
ofdreadOE
afearedOE
offearedlOE
radc1175
frightya1325
fearedc1330
fearfulc1374
afraidc1380
frayeda1400
wrotha1400
afearc1410
ghastful1422
fleyedc1425
afleyeda1500
a flighta1535
effrayed1553
flight-given?1611
hareda1618
frighted1647
affrightened1649
frighteneda1721
scared1725
intimidated1727
frightsome1827
scary1827
funked1831
fearing1837
funked out1859
fearsome1863
chickenshit1940
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xviii. 296 Tha[n] was the kynge loot sore aflayed, ffor thei mette Teucus with thre thousand saisnes.
1782 Fergusson's Poet. Wks. 85 The herds wou'd gather in their nowt..Hafflins afley'd to bide thereout To hear thy thunder.
1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 51 As I wor aflaid of a clout o' my heeod, I thought it safest way to steeal quietly off.
1851 Ainsworth's Mag. 19 145 The soldiers..were ‘afflaid’ to go to fight the blacks—evidently alluding to the Sikhs.
1884 J. Rye Kirby-in-the-Dale II. ix. 173 T' yoong chap 's a deeäl too much aflayed o' t' auld lord.
2005 B. Griffiths Dict. North East Dial. (ed. 2) 59/2 ‘The folks o' wor raw was aflaidAllan's Tyneside Songs..‘aflaid—afraid’ Tanfield Lea 1960.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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