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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : freek
Phonetic Transcription : frik



Definition of freak

Origin :
  • 1560s, "sudden turn of mind," of unknown origin, perhaps related to Old English frician "to dance" (not recorded in Middle English, but the word may have survived in dialect) [OED, Barnhart], or perhaps from Middle English frek "bold, quickly," from Old English frec "greedy, gluttonous" (cf. German frech "bold, impudent").
  • Sense of "capricious notion" (1560s) and "unusual thing, fancy" (1784) preceded that of "strange or abnormal individual" (first in freak of nature, 1847; cf. Latin lusus naturæ, used in English from 1660s). The sense in health freak, ecology freak, etc. is attested from 1908 (originally Kodak freak, a camera buff). Freak show attested from 1887.
  • noun something, someone very abnormal
  • noun irregularity, whim
  • noun person enthused about something
  • verb become extraordinarily upset
Example sentences :
  • Nothing as to the manners of the times can be inferred from this freak of an individual.
  • Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • That is why we feel that Freak Dinners would not even be freakish.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • He seems to think that I am a sort of a rara avis, a freak of nature.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
  • If she found the man, by some freak of chance, what would she do with him?
  • Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter
  • This freak of figure and dress was Thunder-maker, the great Medicine Man of the tribe.
  • Extract from : « The Fiery Totem » by Argyll Saxby
  • By a freak of nature he might possess the instinct but not the ability.
  • Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
  • Admit that he has ceased to be a freak and becomes a marvel.
  • Extract from : « The Million-Dollar Suitcase » by Alice MacGowan
  • I think there is something more than a freak in this instance.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • She is not the product of any known better stock; she is, well, a freak of nature!
  • Extract from : « Janet of the Dunes » by Harriet T. Comstock
  • By what freak of destiny should it have proved the cause of the monstrous aberration of my mind?
  • Extract from : « Balthasar » by Anatole France

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