Noun: fright
| Singular | fright |
| Plural | frights |
Sample Sentences
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With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall. [1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:]
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Her maids were old, and if she took a new one,
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You might be sure she was a perfect fright;
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She did this during even her husband's life
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I recommend as much to every wife. [1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, (please specify the stanza number):]
Nouns inflected like fright
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English fright, furht, from Old English fryhtu, fyrhto (“fright, fear, dread, trembling, horrible sight”), from Proto-Germanic *furhtį̄ (“fear”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥k- (“to fear”).
2. Cognate with Scots fricht (“fright”), Old Frisian fruchte (“fright”), Low German frucht (“fright”), Middle Dutch vrucht, German Furcht (“fear, fright”), Danish frygt (“fear”), Swedish fruktan (“fear, fright, dread”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌷𐍄𐌴𐌹 (faurhtei, “fear, horror, fright”). Compare possibly Albanian frikë (“fear, fright, dread, danger”). See: Middle English Nouns '
fright', Old English Nouns '
fryhtu', German Nouns '
Furcht', Danish Nouns '
frygt', Swedish Nouns '
fruktan', Gothic Nouns '
𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌷𐍄𐌴𐌹'.
Verbs referencing "fright"
Gothic Nouns
𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌷𐍄𐌴𐌹.