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a-scared adjective Scared, afraid. [a- perhaps by analogy with afeared; DARE labels this usage “chiefly South”]

1937 Hall Coll You were a-scared of that place? 1972 AOHP/ALC-241 I know I was a-scared of them. 1989 Matewan OHP-102 I knew there was something wrong, and he was really a-scared about that.