Definition of "fraid"

Guess ye'd better speak to 'em about spendin' so much money, Mr. Merrick; I'm 'fraid they may need it some day." "

1912, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation‎

When a man is 'gaged in prah, he ain't fraid o' nuffin--dey can't nuffin tetch him."

1873, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Complete‎

"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.

1872, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Fireside Stories‎