Etymograph

English

fraysexual

From fray (“archaic word for stranger”) + -sexual.

Formed from fray ‘archaic word for stranger’ + -sexual

Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- ‘to cut’

Old French fraier

Middle English fraien ‘to beat so as to cause bruising, to bruise’

English fray

Today it means

adj Only sexually attracted to people one does not know.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fraysexual