freak
Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictableSomeone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
» Tom is a freak.
Том странный.
Том стрёмный.
Том потворний.
Том — потвора.
Meaning
12 sensesSomeone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
The two-headed calf was a freak.
freak of nature, freak of the weather, freak of the imagination
a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
(derogatory, slang)A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.
Freak, Spinner
чуда́кčudák, фрикfrik, уро́дuród
дива́кdyvák
A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.
(derogatory, slang)A hippie.
(derogatory, slang)A drug addict.
A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).
An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
Bob's a real video-game freak. He owns every games console of the last ten years.
Freak, Spinner
фана́тикfanátik, чуда́кčudák, фана́тfanát
(endearing, informal, sometimes)A very sexually perverse individual.
She's a freak in the sheets!
A wild dance.
Get your freak on.
(dated)A sudden change of mind.
Laune
причу́даpričúda, капри́зkapríz, чуда́чествоčudáčestvo
(dated)A spot or streak of colour.
A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
(Scotland, UK, dialectal)A fellow; a petulant young man.
Examples
419 sentencesTom is a freak.
Том потворний.
ruТом странный.
Are you freaking out?
Ти психуєш?
deDrehst du gerade durch?
Tom's parents freaked out.
Батьки Тома злякалися.
deToms Eltern sind ausgeflippt.
Don't freak out.
Не лякайся.
ruНе кипишуй.
deFlipp nicht aus!
Tom didn't look like a freak.
ruТом не казался странным.
Translations
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Origin
The verb is a variant of freck. The noun is derived from the verb. From Middle EnglishThe verb is a variant of freck. The noun is derived from the verb.
From Middle English freke, freike (“a bold man, warrior, man, creature”), from Old English freca (“a bold man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-Germanic *frekô (“an active or eager man, warrior, wolf”), from *frekaz (“active, bold, desirous, greedy”), from Proto-Indo-European *pereg-, *spereg- (“to shrug, be quick, twitch, splash, blast”).
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Forms
plural: freaksSynonyms
114 synonyms- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed:monstermonstrositylusus naturae
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction:addictnutjunkiejunky
Word family
37 related wordsCollocations
12 patterns- freaking freaking out
- freaking freaking
- freaked out by
- a control freak
- was freaking freaking
- totally freaked out
- really freaked out
- control freak
- bit freaked out
- won't freak out
- freaked out when
- a bit freaked