RichThesaurus
'fraid
vs
skittish
'fraid
adj
Afraid.
skittish
adj
Easily scared or startled; timid.
Wanton; changeable; fickle.
Difficult to manage; tricky.
How often have the words
'fraid
and
skittish
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)