Freak

Definition: Freak

Freak

Noun

1. A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed.

2. Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a control freak".

Verb

1. Lose one's nerve; "When he saw the accident, he freaked out".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "freak" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Freak

Caprice

Noun: caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase; capriciousness; Adjective: kink.

Unconformity

Noun: {opp. } nonconformity; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness; Adjective: exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter.

Crosswords: Freak

German (freak), Portuguese (needle-addict, needlefreak, needler), Swedish (freak).

What a freak! And why does he dress like a bible salesman (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

That I'm a freak. (The Sixth Sense; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

It is only out of sheer morbid curiosity that I am allowing this freak show to continue (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

What is this, some kind of freak out (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

You're just jealous because I'm a real freak and you have to wear a mask (Batman Returns ; writing credit: Sam Hamm, Daniel Waters)

Freak it freak it (Blow Your Mind; performing artist: Baha Men)

Lovers it curves so freak what you heard (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet)

And freak this dest just like Ashford and Simpson (Funkdafied; performing artist: Da Brat)

Let me freak ya on the dance floor (Feelin' So Good; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

Stoned pimp, stoned freak, stoned out of my mind (Cowboy; performing artist: KID ROCK)

Peek Freak (1973)

Como Era Freak (1972)

Blood Freak (1971)

She Freak (1967)

An Odd Freak (1923)

DISCO NIGHT (ROCK FREAK)� (performing artist: GQ� )

Get Ur Freak On (performing artist: Missy Elliott)

Freak Me (performing artist: Silk)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Living Nightmare (Cirque du Freak, Book 1) (reference)

• Freak the Mighty (reference)

• Promises for a Jesus Freak (reference)

• The Control Freak (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Blood Freak (reference)

• Castle Freak (reference)

• I Am Not a Freak (reference)

• Luke's Freak Show Vol.2 (reference)

• Welcome to the Freak Show (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Freak Nasty World (reference)

• Freak of Nature (reference)

• Jesus Freak (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Some Western freak coinage. Credit: Library of Congress.

The fear news network turn it on, tune it in, and freak out!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Freak. Credit: Library of Congress.

Freak and twisted carrots caused by defective seed. These carrots are not marketable but are excellent cattle food. Santa Maria, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Barbara Dane, James Johnson (Ft. Hood 3), Dr. Howard Levy, Peter Yarrow invite you to FTA : Freak the Army and other services ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Bahrain

The insurance sector took a hard hit during a freak storm in November of 2000, but the market remains underdeveloped in Bahrain (as in many Islamic societies), and full of potential. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "freak": fitness freak ♦ freak of nature ♦ freak out ♦ health freak ♦ speed freak. Additional references.

Beginning with "freak": freak-of-nature, freak-out, freak-outs.

Ending with "freak": control-freak, hippy-freak, ibm-freak, speed-freak, vomit-freak.

Albanian

fanatik (bigot, bigoted, devotee, fanatic, fanatical, pious, sectarian, zealot), trullos (befuddle, bewilder, daze, intoxicate, overwhelm, stultify, stun, stupefy), trill (caprice, crotchet, device, deviltry, fad, fancy, fantasy, kink, phantasy, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsy), tekë e natyrës, tekë (caprice, fancy, kink, vagary, whim, whimsy), shpërthej (blast, blow up, break, break out, burst, detonate, erupt, explode, flame out, flame up, implode, let off, poke out), krijesë anormale, kapriç (vagary, whim, whimsy), kapem nga paniku, i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, curious, dark, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freakish, funny, grotesque, kinky, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, rummy, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird, whimsical). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هوى (aerate, air, fan, fantasy, inclination, love, passion, phantasy, sentiment, vagary, whim), ‏نزوة (caprice, crank, fancy, fantasy, heat, maggot, phantasy, quirk, vagary, whim, whimsy), ‏لون بخطوط, ‏عمل أشياء مخالفة, ‏عادة (as a rule, commonly, custom, generally, groove, habit, habit of body, institution, observance, ordinarily, practice, praxis, rite, rubric, rule, usage, usually, wont), ‏إستثنائي (especial, exceptional, exceptive, extraneous, extraordinary, freaked, mighty, out of the ordinary, particular, phenomenal, premium, prodigious, rare, remarkable, singular, special, terrific, thundering, uncommon, unusual), ‏شخص غريب المنظر, ‏شاذ (aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bastard, bizarre, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, far fetched, intriguing, irregular, monstrous, moonstruck, odd, off beat, outlandish, preternatural, prodigious, queer, rogue, scatty, singular, stupendous, thumping, wild). (various references)

Bulgarian 

рядкост (curiosity, rareness, rarity, scarcity, sparsity, virtu), чуден (fantastic, fantastical, freaky, funny, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, peculiar, strange), каприз (caprice, crank, fad, fancy, fit, maggot, megrim, quirk, vagary, vagrancy, whimsy, whim-wham), особняк (card, crank, erratic, oddity, original), нередовен (informal, inordinate, irregular, occasional, odd), необикновен (devilish, different, distinct, exceptional, extraordinary, extreme, freakish, novel, out, out of the ordinary, out of the way, phenomenal, portentous, quaint, remarkable, singular, special, unaccustomed, unaverage, uncommon, unconventional, unheard of, unusual, weird), неестествен (artificial, galvanic, stagy, stilted, unnatural), наркоман (acid head, addict, dope, drug addict, head, junker, junkie, junky, narcotic), запалянко (fan, hound, merchant, rooter), анормален (aberrant, abnormal), приумица (quirk, vagary, vagrancy, whim-wham), изпъстрям (dapple, lace, mottle, pepper, sprinkle). (various references)

Chinese 

怪誕 (weird), 怪物 (monster), 反常 (Abnormal). (various references)

Czech

fanda (enthusiast, fiend), vrtoch (fancy, megrim, vagary, whim), rozmar (caprice, fantasy, megrim, vagary, whim), reagovat (answer, behave, react, respond), podivný (curious, eldritch, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum, strange, utter, weird), podivín (codger, crank, eccentric), groteskní (antic, farcical, grotesque), blázen (fool, gander, lunatic, nut, nutcase), bizarní (bizarre, fanciful, fantastic, outlandish, queer, weird), být paf. (various references)

Dutch

misvormig. (various references)

Finnish

käyrä (bent, crooked, curve, curved, diagram, graph), epämuotoinen (deformed, misshapen). (various references)

French

faire flipper, lubie, hors-de-forme, hippie, habitude, extraordinaire (freaked), exceptionnel, déformé, caprice, anormal. (various references)

German

missgeburt (abortion, deformed person, failure, monster, monstrosity), laune (caprice, fancy, frame, humor, humour, mood, quirk, spirit, sulkiness, temper, vagary, vein, whim, whimsy). (various references)

Greek 

κάτι αφύσικον, έκτρωμα (abnormity, abortion, monster), ιδιοτροπία (caprice, crankiness, crotchetiness, faddiness, fancy, kink, maggot, moodiness, quirk, tetchiness, vagary, whim, whimsicalness, whimsy), φρικιό, φρίκιο, αφύσικο (unearthliness), τέρασ (abortion, monster, prodigy), � αραμορφωμένο. (various references)

Hebrew 

משו� �" (anomalous, eccentric, odd, quaint, queer, strange, weird), מפלצת (bete noire, bogey, horror, monster, monstrosity). (various references)

Hungarian

csíny (caper, escapade, lark, mischief, monkeyshine, prank, prat, rig). (various references)

Indonesian

tingkah (caprice, vagary), seloroh (caprice, gag, tic, vagary, whim), canda (caprice, gag, tic, vagary, whim). (various references)

Italian

fenomeno (apparition, appearance, emergence, occurance, phenomenon, wonder), mostro (fiend, miracle, monster, monstrosities, monstrous, ogre), deformato, capriccio (caprice, device, fad, fancy, kink, maggot, mood, sulkiness, vagary, whim, whimsy), bizzarria (oddity, oddness), anomalia (abnormality, anomaly), aborto (abortion, failure, miscarriage). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

奇形 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フリーク (flick), きけい (abnormality, clever scheme, deformity, original, tricks, wiles, witty, you), かわり� ね (eccentric personality, exception, hybrid, mutation, novelty, variety), へ�"しゅ (eccentric personality, exception, hybrid, mutation, novelty, swindling, variety). (various references)

Korean 

별난 (freaky). (various references)

Manx

skelim (caprice), frourtagh (freakish, froward, perverse, perverse person). (various references)

Norwegian

original, lune (caprice, quirk). (various references)

Pig Latin

eakfray.(various references)

Portuguese

fenómeno (apparition, phenomenon), fantasia (caprice, chimera, crotchet, doss, dream, fable, fairytale, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, idea, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, maggot, moonshine, phantasm, phantasy, reverie, unreality, vagary, vapor, vapour, whim, whimsical), singularidade (oddity, oneness, peculiarity, rareness, singleness, singularity), aborto (abort, abortion, monster), anomalia (abnormity, anomaly), capricho (caprice, crank, craze, crotchet, fad, gambade, humor, humour, maggot, vagary, whim, whimsical, whimsy), deformado (deformed, drawn, gnarled, gnarly, malformed, misshapen, strained, warped), esdrúxulo, extravagância (crotchet, extravagance, faddiness, flamboyance, flamboyancy, lunacy, oddity, whim, whimsy), aberração (aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, aberrations, warp), salpico (splash, spot, sprinkling), veneta (humor, humour, kink, maggot, whim), grotesco (antic, bizarre, grotesque, ludicrous, ragtime, ridiculous), listrar (fleck, lace), matizar (blend, checker, fret, mingle, speckle, sprinkle, variegate), mesclar (blend, mingle, mix, shuffle), salpicar (bedabble, bespatter, dabble, dapple, dash, dredge, flash, fleck, flecker, pepper, speckle), esquisito (antic, bizarre, fastidious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, strange, weird). (various references)

Romanian

fantezie (day dream, fancy, fantasy, fiction, imagination, make believe, phantasy, reverie), toanã (caprice, crotchet, fancy, humor, humour, vagary, whim, whimsy), poznã (caper, damage, farce, Folly, foolishness, merry prank, mischief, practical trick, prank, roguery), monstruozitate (abnormity, monstrosity, monstrousness), lepãdãturã (abortion, degenerate, scoundrel, villain), idee trãsnitã, idee nãstruşnicã, curiozitate (curio, curiosity, inquisitiveness, interest, peculiarity, singularity), ciudãţenie (behavior, behaviour, curio, curiosity, eccentricity, extravagance, kink, oddity, oddment, oddness, originality, peculiarity, queerness, quip, singularity, strangeness, vagary, whim, whimsicality), caracter anormal, capriciu (caprice, crotchet, fad, fancy, notion, quirk, whim, whimsy). (various references)

Russian 

урод (golliwog, monster), чудак (card, codger, faddist, gink, nut, odd card, odd fish, oddball, queer bird, queer card, queer customer, queer fish, rum customer, rum fellow, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy), каприз (caprice, fancy, fit, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsey, whimsy), причуда (antics, caprice, crank, fad, foible, kink, maggot, vagary, whimsy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nakazan (malformed, miscreated, misshapen, unsightly), nakaza. (various references)

Spanish

fortuito (accidental, casual, chance, fortuitous, freakish, haphazard, incidental, random), fenómeno (accident, phenomenon, whiz, whizz, wiz), fuera de forma, mutación (mutation, saltation, sport), anormal (aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, defective, freakish, irregular, unnatural), capricho (capriccio, caprice, fancy, fantasy, humor, humour, mood, notion, obstinacy, phantasy, quirk, sulkiness, vagary, waywardness, whim, whimsey, whimsy), caprichoso (capricious, faddish, faddy, fanciful, flighty, freakish, hardheaded, headstrong, opinionated, skittish, temperamental, vagary, wanton, wayward, whimsical, wilful, willful), chalado (barmy, Batty, bugs, crazy, Dotty, mad, off his head), chiflado (barmy, cracked, crackpot, crazy, daft, loon, loony, Loopy, mad, madly, nut, nutter, off his head, off one's nut, screwy, touched, trolley, wacky), cosa rara (droll, oddity), deformado (deformed, disfigures, distorted, garbles), adefesio (ridiculous sight), monstruosidad (blot, eyesore, monstrosity), rareza (extravagance, flitter, gowk, oddity, oddness, peculiarity, quaintness, queerness, rareness, rarity, scarceness, scarcity, strangeness, weirdness), monstruoso (callous, disastrous, freakish, monster, monstrous, outrageous), hacer anormalmente, imprevisible (freakish, unpredictable), inesperado (abrupt, freakish, unexpected, unlooked for), monstruo (caliban, colossus, dragon, dread, giant, monster), curiosidad (curio, curiosity, inquisitiveness). (various references)

Swedish

nyck (caprice, crotchet, fad, fancy, humor, humour, quirk, vagary, whim, whimsicality, whimsy). (various references)

Thai

ประหลา�" (eldritch, queerish). (various references)

Turkish

uyuşturucu bağımlısı (acid head, addicted to drugs, drug addict, drug addicted, drugster, hype, junkie), meraklı (addict, addicted, aficionado, amateur, buff, bug, curious, curious person, devotee, fancier, given to, hipped, hipped on, hound, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, keen, keen on, lover, nosey, nosy, prying, quidnunc, quizzical, rubberneck, snoop, Snoopy, splenetic), maymun iştahlılık (desultoriness, flightiness), kapris (caprice, fancy, fit, kink, vagary, waywardness, whim, whimsey, whimsy), hilkat garibesi (freak of nature), heves (alacrity, ambition, anxiety, Ardor, ardour, brio, cult, desire, eagerness, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fit, furor, furore, grace, inclination, itch, keenness, maggot, nine days' wonder, notion, relish, stomach, studiousness, whim, whimsey, whimsy, zeal), garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), bağımlı (addict, addicted, clinging, confirmed, dependent, given to, habitual, hooked, in the bondage of vice, interdependent, inveterate, linked, subject, subsidiary), anormal şey, anormal (aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, freakish, preternatural, unnatural), acayip yaratık, acayip (antic, bizarre, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, curious, droll, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, flaky, freakish, grotesque, incongruous, kinky, kooky, novel, odd, out of the way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, singular, some, splendiferous, strange, uncanny, unco, unusual, weird), aşırı heyecanlandırmak (over-excite). (various references)

Ukrainian

різноманітити (diversify, enliven, intersperse, relieve, vary), чудити (kink), капризувати, вередувати, примха (buzz, caprice, fad, fancy, fantasy, maggot, megrim, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsey, whimsy), примхливий (arbitrary, capricious, choice, cranky, fanciful, fractious, freakish, huffish, humorous, humous, inconstant, maggoty, naughty, notional, notionate, skittish, whimsey, whimsical, whimsy), поцяткувати, потвора (chimera, gorgon, monster), дивацький (maggoty), дивацтво (crotchet, faddiness, oddity, whirligig). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính hay thay đổi quái vật, tính đ�"ng bóng (capriciousness, freakishness, mercuriality), điều kỳ dị. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "freak": freaked, freakier, freakiest, freakily, freakiness, freakinesses, freaking, freakish, freakishly, freakishness, freakishnesses, freakout, freakouts, freaks, freaky. (additional references)

Words ending with "freak": ecofreak. (additional references)

Words containing "freak": ecofreaks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Freak" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Faruk, Farukh, feak, feeak, fera, ferak, Ferik, Ferkauf, Ferouk, Firpac, fpeak, frac, frae, frak, frake, frawk, freack, fread, freag, freako, fream, frean, freask, freat, Freek, Freij, freik, Freja, frek, Frena, Frenk, fresa, friek, Frik, greak, Kreka. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: faker.

-1 letter: fake, fare, fear, frae, kerf, rake.

-2 letters: are, arf, ark, ear, era, far, fer, kae, kaf, kea, kef, ref.

-3 letters: ae, ar, ef, er, fa, ka, re.

+1 letter: fakeer, fakers, fakery, flaker, freaks, freaky.

+2 letters: fakeers, flakers, flakier, flanker, forsake, franked, franker, freaked, rakeoff.

+3 letters: backfire, ecofreak, fakeries, fireback, flackery, flankers, forepeak, forerank, forsaken, forsaker, forsakes, frankers, frankest, freakier, freakily, freaking, freakish, freakout, prefrank, rakeoffs, wakerife, workfare.

+4 letters: afterdeck, backfired, backfires, breakfast, drawknife, dwarflike, ecofreaks, fairylike, falsework, filmmaker, firebacks, firebreak, firedrake, forepeaks, foreranks, foreshank, forespeak, forsakers, framework, frankable, frankness, freakiest, freakouts, friedcake, fruitcake, lakefront, leakproof, prefranks, tackifier, workfares.