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Middle English: from Old Norse skirra ‘frighten’, from skjarr ‘timid’.
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scare + -ed
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scared (adj.)
past-participle adjective from scare (v.). Scared stiff first recorded 1900; scared shitless is from 1936. Scaredy-cat "timid person" first attested 1906.
