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noun

Freak n.

A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice. "She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation."

A rare and unpredictable event; as, the July snowstorm was a freak of nature.

An habitual drug user, especially one who uses psychedelic drugs.

An animal or person with a visible congenital abnormality; applied especially to those who appear in a circus sideshow.

Synonyms: Whim; caprice; folly; sport. See Whim.

verb

Freak v. t. (past & past part. freaked; pres. part. freaking) To variegate; to checker; to streak. (R.) "Freaked with many a mingled hue."

Freak v. t.

To cause (a person) react with great distress or extreme emotion; often used in the phrase freak out.

Freak v. i.

To react with irrationality or extreme emotion; to lose one's composure; often used in the phrase freak out.

To become irrational or to experience hallucinations under the influence of drugs; often used in the phrase freak out.

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Etymology of 'Freak'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Freak" Quotes from Famous Books

... this, two sturdy Englishmen and their sister had come to the New World, with a good deal of energy and some money. The freak that led them up the river to this place was their love of beautiful scenery. Land was cheap, and at first they tried farming, but presently they started a carpet factory, their old business, and being ingenious men, they made some improvements. Ralph Stanwood, another Englishman, joined them. ...

— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... was there to say?" Harriet answered. "Our meeting was entirely accidental. He had no idea of finding me; was as surprised as I was." She stopped abruptly, musing on some unpalatable thought. "You wouldn't know him, Linda. He is a perfect freak," she said, presently, "talks about Karma and Nirvana and I don't know what all! Whether he's a Theosophist or a ...

— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris

... had proved fruitless. "You can know nothing of women," was the end of his reflections, "if you do not know that what seems most improbable is what is most likely to be true. This maid is certainly not one of the flute-players or the like. Who knows what incomprehensible whim or freak may have brought her here? At any rate, it will be easier for her to keep her eyes open than it is ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... same thing," I replied. "By some freak its vibratory qualities had that effect. The deep whistle of the sunken Lusitania would, for instance, make the Singer Building shake to its foundations; while the Olympic did not affect the Singer at all but made the Woolworth shiver ...

— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt

... touches, while Tods patrolled the Burra Simla Bazar in his morning rides, and played with the monkey belonging to Ditta Mull, the bunnia, and listened, as a child listens to all the stray talk about this new freak of the Lat Sahib's. ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

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