Freak
[friːk]
Definition
(noun.) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed.
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Definition
(v. t.) To variegate; to checker; to streak.
(n.) A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Whim, whimsey, caprice, fancy, humor, crotchet, maggot, vagary, quirk, WRINKLE.[2]. Gambol, antic, caper.
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Definition
n. a sudden caprice or fancy: sport: an abnormal production of nature a monstrosity.—ns. Freak′iness Freak′ishness.—adjs. Freak′ish Freak′ful apt to change the mind suddenly: capricious.—adv. Freak′ishly.
v.t. to spot or streak: to variegate.—n. a streak of colour.
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Examples
- He knew with the first breath he drew that the snow had been only a freak storm in the mountains and it would be gone by noon. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is no queer freak. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They began to get anxious, and Laurie went off to find her, for no one knew what freak Jo might take into her head. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He's got the freak of being a popular man now, after dangling about like a stray tortoise. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I daresay it is a mad freak, sir, but not so very insane if you look upon it from my point of view. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Is this not rather a mad freak? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Tammany is not a freak, a strange and monstrous excrescence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One of poor Casaubon's freaks! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Of these latter testamentary freaks we will say no more here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Being at the end of my invention, I said Mr. Franklin's arrival by the early train was entirely attributable to one of Mr. Franklin's freaks. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Or will they forgive the freaks of a half crazed imagination? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Constant confinement below ground had wrought odd freaks upon their skins. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Louis, strange to say, likes her all the better for these freaks. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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