Definition of "skeered"

skeered

adjective
comparative more skeered, superlative most skeered
1. Pronunciation spelling of scared.
  Quotations
  ‘Datʼs what makes me skeered.’
  1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 16
verb
1. Pronunciation spelling of scared.
  Quotations
  ‘De noise uh de owls skeered me.’
  1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 22