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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
- 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
Synonyms for freak
- aberration
- abortion
- addict
- aficionado
- anomaly
- buff
- bug
- caprice
- chimera
- conceit
- crochet
- curiosity
- devotee
- enthusiast
- fad
- fan
- fanatic
- fancy
- fiend
- flip out
- folly
- geek
- go beserk
- go insane
- go mad
- grotesque
- humor
- lose control
- malformation
- maniac
- megrim
- miscreation
- misshape
- monster
- monstrosity
- mutant
- mutation
- nut
- oddity
- queer
- quirk
- rarity
- rave
- sport
- turn
- twist
- unhinge
- vagary
- weirdo
- whimsy
- wig out
- zealot
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