freakn.1
/friːk/, U.S. /frik/ 1. A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a capricious humour, notion, whim, or vagary.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim
fantasya1450
wantonness1531
humour1533
worm?a1534
will1542
toy?1545
whey-worm1548
wild worm1548
freak1563
crotchet1573
fancy1579
whim-wham1580
whirligig1589
caper1592
megrim1593
spleen1594
kicksey-winsey1599
fegary1600
humorousness1604
curiosity1605
conundrum1607
whimsy1607
windmill1612
buzza1616
capriccioa1616
quirka1616
flama1625
maggota1625
fantasticality1631
capruch1634
gimcrack1639
whimseycado1654
caprich1656
excursion1662
frisk1665
caprice1673
fita1680
grub1681
fantasque1697
whim1697
frolic1711
flight1717
whigmaleery1730
vagary1753
maddock1787
kink1803
fizgig1824
fad1834
whimmery1837
fantod1839
brain crack1853
whimsy-whamsy1871
tic1896
tick1900
1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Jane Shore ii Fortunes frekes.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iv. sig. D7 I feare the fickle freakes..Of fortune.
1632 S. Marmion Hollands Leaguer ii. i Her I'll make A stale, to take this courtier in a freak.
1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 70 Now the freak takes him, and hee makes seventy Peers of the Land at one clap.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 427. ⁋2 Sometimes in a Freak [she] will instantly change her Habitation.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 76 Amid the freaks that modern fashion sanctions, It grieves me much to see live animals Brought on the stage.
1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands vi. 158 Ibrahim Pasha, in a freak of tyrannical fury, turned every Mahometan out of the city.
1891 E. Gosse Gossip in Library v. 56 One of the grimmest freaks that ever entered into a pious mind.
2. The disposition of a mind subject to such humours; capriciousness.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness
giddinessa1290
lightnessc1384
gerishnessa1513
fantasticnessc1550
unstaidnessa1557
fantasticalness1583
triflingnessa1586
spleen1598
capriciousness1607
skittishness1607
humorousness1611
wavinga1628
volageness1633
arbitrariness1643
garishness1649
legerity1652
mercury1653
volatility1655
caprich1656
humoursomeness1662
hoity-toity1668
jollity1670
unaccountableness1676
freak1678
whimsya1680
featheriness1689
toysomeness1697
caprice1711
whimsicalness1715
flirtation1718
whima1721
flightiness1747
whimsicality1761
giggishness1781
fancifulness1818
hoity-toityness1820
whifflery1835
crotchetiness1837
quirkiness1870
faddishness1884
faddism1885
vagarity1886
erraticism1889
whimsiness1909
1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Seneca's Morals: Of Benefits xiii. 97 It is the Freak of many People, they cannot do a good Office, but they are presently boasting of it.
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. xviii. 380 Several..have ruined their fortunes out of mere freak.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xiii. 232 A decent quiescence, under the freak of manner, gave me the advantage.
3. A capricious prank or trick, a caper.Cf. the earlier synonym reak n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > a frolic
oliprancec1390
ragerya1393
vague1523
rex1566
friskin1570
gambol1573
reak1573
prank1576
vagary1588
whirligig1589
caper1592
prinkum-prankum1596
firk1611
frolica1635
carryings-on1663
ramp1696
romp1713
freak1724
scheme1758
rig1782
lark1811
escapade1814
gammock1819
gambade1821
enfantillage1827
game1828
shines1830
rollick1834
rusty1835
high jinksa1845
escapado1849
shenanigan1855
rum-tum1876
panta1901
gas1914
1724 J. Gay Quidnuncki's Thus, as in giddy freaks he bounces, Crack goes the twig, and in he flounces!
1840 R. H. Barham Jackdaw of Rheims in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 218 The priests, with awe, As such freaks they saw, Said, ‘The Devil must be in that little Jackdaw’.
1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. i. 6 Expelled from Harrow for some boyish freak.
4.
a. A product of irregular or sportive fancy.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun]
phantoma1375
fantasyc1440
conceitc1450
fancy1471
crotchet1573
whim-wham1580
vision1592
reverie1602
whimsy1607
windmill1612
brainworm1617
maggota1625
vapour1631
flama1637
fantastic1641
idea1660
whim1697
rockstaff1729
whigmaleery1730
vagary1753
freak1785
whimsy-whamsy1807
crankum1822
whimmery1837
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 130 Thy most magnificent and mighty freak [an ice-palace], The wonder of the North.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 168 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole, Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks.
b. More fully freak of nature (cf. lusus naturae n.): an abnormally developed individual of any species; in recent use (esp. U.S.), a living curiosity exhibited in a show.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > person
misshapec1400
counterfeit1557
hodmandod1664
zad1725
freak of nature1847
wingy1880
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > condition of being abnormal or unnatural > that which is
monsterc1384
prodigy1595
aberration1615
unnatural1627
preternatural1674
nonsuch?1706
frisk of nature1809
freak of nature1847
preternaturalism1858
hodmandod1881
1847 A. M. Gilliam Trav. Mexico (new ed.) 230 Many were..the freaks of nature that I beheld in the singular formations of the rocks.
1883 Daily News 11 Sept. 2/5 An association of..natural curiosities usually exhibited at booths..called the ‘Freaks' Union’, the word freaks being an abbreviation of the term ‘freaks of nature’ by which these monstrosities are described.
1891 C. T. C. James Romantic Rigmarole 130 The two freaks were retired into private life for purposes of refreshment.
c. One who ‘freaks out’ (freak v. 3); a drug addict (see also quots.).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > drug addict
head1856
narcotist1860
drugger1870
drug fiend1873
druggard1882
narcomaniac1888
dope-fiend1896
addict1899
dopehead1901
hypo1904
drug addict1905
drug abuser1915
junker1922
junkie1923
hype1924
needle artist1925
needleman1925
schmecker1931
dope-addict1933
ad1938
dopester1938
narco1958
pillhead1962
druggie1966
freak1967
drugster1970
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [noun] > effects of hallucinatory drugs > one experiencing
tripper1966
freak1967
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [noun] > one who accepts on trust > with strong conviction
freak1967
1967 Avatar (Boston) 1–14 Sept. 17/1 The life expectancy of the average speed-freak..is less than five years.
1967 Avatar (Boston) Dec. 4/1 Some of us are beginning to wonder who are the ‘freaks’ in this world and who are the ‘straight’ people.
1969 R. R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z 79 Freak... One who prefers a certain kind of drug, as in acid freak or meth freak... By extension, one who is obsessed with a certain way of thinking as in ‘political freak’.
1971 Oz May 7/2 Its hills and valleys are full of hippies, and freaks, camping along the river beds.
1971 It 9– 23 Sept. 5/5 Power freaks like Ted Heath and union leader Vic Feather.
1971 Ink 19 Oct. 7/1 An ideological community of 25 freaks plus guru in Copenhagen.
1971 Ink 19 Oct. 7/3 Far from there being any noticeable improvement in the quality of relationships as practised among freaks, I would say there has been a distinct deterioration compared even with the most miserable standards of the straight world.
d. With qualifying word or phrase: one who shows great enthusiasm for the activity, person, or thing specified, as health freak, train freak, etc.; an aficionado. Cf. buff n.2 6b and fiend n. 4c colloquial (originally U.S.).
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the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > enthusiasm (for something) > enthusiast for person or thing
votary1594
votary1594
well-willer1607
lief-hebber1653
enthusiast1748
amateur1771
fanatic1790
red-hot1835
freak1908
hound1926
fan1928
televisionary1928
tifoso1949
person1966
prosumer1987
1908 Court of Appeals, State of N.Y. III. 455 He had a camera. Evidently from the evidence in this case he was one of your kodak freaks.
1946 B. Ulanov Duke Ellington xix. 270 ‘I'm a train freak,’ Duke says.
1959 L. Lipton Holy Barbarians i. 39 He looked more like one of those beachcomber Nature Boy health freaks than a real hipster.
19671 [see sense 4c]. 1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 18 Nov. 15/7 I'm not a Freud freak, but..you can only stay with them until they are school age.
1977 J. D. MacDonald Condominium xxxvi. 354 It's just another one of these so-called scientific studies of doom from another one of the ecology freaks.
1986 P. Booth Palm Beach vii. 124 Boy, are you exercise freaks into punishment.
Compounds
freak-storm; freak-doing adj.; also quasi-adj. to denote something abnormal or capriciously irregular; freak show n. at a fair, etc.: a sideshow featuring freaks (sense 4b).
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective]
enorm?1518
enormousa1533
enormious1604
exorbitant1607
erratical1646
wanton1743
anormal1812
abnormal1817
freak-storm1898
society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > other side-shows
poppy-show1691
hall of mirrors1789
peep show1851
funhouse1920
freak show1939
Wall of Death1946
1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 470 The freak-doing Aswins.
1887 E. R. Pennell in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 400 (note) What I should call penny peep, or rather freak, shows.
1898 Daily News 17 Mar. 6/5 ‘The yellow kid’, a personification of ‘freak’ or sensational journalism.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 26 Sept. 7/2 The boats which have been built for this race of recent years are freak boats pure and simple.
1907 Daily Chron. 5 Oct. 4/4 Conditions in America seem particularly favourable to the propagation of freak religions.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 7 Mar. 8/1 The production of freak fruits, such as white blackberries..and seedless oranges.
1928 Observer 29 July 19/2 But with freak distributions of cards which justify high bidding, doubles that look sound often come ‘unstuck’.
1939 G. Greene Lawless Roads i. 30 A freak show in a little booth.
1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse x. 141 These Berghens take a delight in freak-flying.
1963 Times 8 May 16/3 The freaker the hands before the goulash the more normal the distribution after the redeal.
1968 A. Taylor Honour in Shallow Cup i. 8 They'd been having freak storms there.
Derivatives
ˈfreakdom n. the region or domain of caprice.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > domain of
freakdom1873
1873–4 A. J. Ellis in Trans. Philol. Soc. 15 Was it [‘scrumptious’]..a pure fancy of the moment, with nothing but absurdity and freakdom to generate it?
ˈfreakery n. freaks collectively.
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1876 J. Weiss Wit, Humor, & Shakespeare i. 5 What a wide range of Nature's curious freakery a forest has!
ˈfreakful adj. freakish, capricious.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical
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wildc1350
volage?a1366
gerfulc1374
geryc1386
wild-headeda1400
skittishc1412
gerish1430
shittle1440
shittle-witted1448
runningc1449
volageous1487
glaikit1488
fantasious1490
giggish1523
tickle or light of the sear?1530
fantastical1531
wayward1531
wantona1538
peevish1539
light-headed1549
humoral1573
unstaid1579
shittle-headed1580
toy-headed1581
fangled1587
humorous1589
choiceful1591
toyish1598
tricksy1598
skip-brain1603
capricious1605
humoursome1607
planetary1607
vertiginous1609
whimsieda1625
ingiddied1628
whimsy1637
toysome1638
cocklec1640
mercurial1647
garish1650
maggoty1650
kicksey-winseya1652
freakish1653
humourish1653
planetic1653
whimsical1653
shittle-braineda1655
freaking1663
maggoty-headed1667
maggot-pated1681
hoity-toity1690
maggotish1693
maggot-headeda1695
whimsy-headed1699
fantasque1701
crotchetly1702
quixotic1718
volatile1719
holloweda1734
conundrumical1743
flighty1768
fly-away1775
dizzy1780
whimmy1785
shy1787
whimming1787
quirky1789
notional1791
tricksome1815
vagarish1819
freakful1820
faddy1824
moodish1827
mawky1837
erratic1841
rockety1843
quirkish1848
maggoty-pated1850
crotchetya1854
freaksome1854
faddish1855
vagrom1882
fantasied1883
vagarisome1883
on-and-offish1888
tricksical1889
freaky1891
hobby-horsical1893
quirksome1896
temperamental1907
up and down1960
untogether1969
fanciful-
fantastic-
1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 16 By some freakful chance.
ˈfreaksome adj. = freakful adj.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical
startfulmood?a1300
wildc1350
volage?a1366
gerfulc1374
geryc1386
wild-headeda1400
skittishc1412
gerish1430
shittle1440
shittle-witted1448
runningc1449
volageous1487
glaikit1488
fantasious1490
giggish1523
tickle or light of the sear?1530
fantastical1531
wayward1531
wantona1538
peevish1539
light-headed1549
humoral1573
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shittle-headed1580
toy-headed1581
fangled1587
humorous1589
choiceful1591
toyish1598
tricksy1598
skip-brain1603
capricious1605
humoursome1607
planetary1607
vertiginous1609
whimsieda1625
ingiddied1628
whimsy1637
toysome1638
cocklec1640
mercurial1647
garish1650
maggoty1650
kicksey-winseya1652
freakish1653
humourish1653
planetic1653
whimsical1653
shittle-braineda1655
freaking1663
maggoty-headed1667
maggot-pated1681
hoity-toity1690
maggotish1693
maggot-headeda1695
whimsy-headed1699
fantasque1701
crotchetly1702
quixotic1718
volatile1719
holloweda1734
conundrumical1743
flighty1768
fly-away1775
dizzy1780
whimmy1785
shy1787
whimming1787
quirky1789
notional1791
tricksome1815
vagarish1819
freakful1820
faddy1824
moodish1827
mawky1837
erratic1841
rockety1843
quirkish1848
maggoty-pated1850
crotchetya1854
freaksome1854
faddish1855
vagrom1882
fantasied1883
vagarisome1883
on-and-offish1888
tricksical1889
freaky1891
hobby-horsical1893
quirksome1896
temperamental1907
up and down1960
untogether1969
fanciful-
fantastic-
1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 175 The Puck of Fancy, that freaksome, tricksy wight.
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Originally and chiefly U.S.
a. colloquial (derogatory). A person regarded as strange or contemptible, esp. because of markedly unusual appearance or behaviour.
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1895 F. P. Dunne in B. C. Schaaf Mr. Dooley's Chicago (1977) iv. v. 165 Th' deluded ol 'freak..had me up all las' month rubbin' his jints with arnica f'r infammathry rhoomatism.
1906 S. Ford Shorty McCabe 281 There's too many freaks around 42nd-st. 'to keep cases on all of 'em.
1943 A. Rand Fountainhead ii. iii. 237 A single man comes to represent, not a lone freak, but the multitude of all men together.
1967 ‘M. T. Knight’ Terrible Ten 82 This guy's a freak... Let's get outta here.
1994 Rolling Stone 2 June 46/3 People around here view us as freaks. They see us walking together in a mall and they think we're a bunch of hoodlums just looking for trouble.
b. slang (frequently derogatory).
(a) A person who enjoys unorthodox sexual practices; a fetishist.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sexual behaviour regarded as unconventional or unacceptable > person
pervert1856
freak1923
perv1948
secko1949
kinky1950
paraphiliac1958
paraphilic1962
prevert1962
kink1965
nonce1971
sickie1973
sicko1977
pervo1978
1923 E. H. Paul Impromptu 333 It was understood that the ‘heavies’, being less in demand, had to entertain the rough men, the freaks, and those who were so drunk they were hard to handle.
1937 B. L. Reitman Sister of Road 178 The big money is on the ‘queer’ guys. And what freaks some of 'em are!
1965 D. A. Ward & G. G. Kassebaum Women's Prison iv. 99 It usually follows a set pattern unless you get with a freak and they're usually freaky about only one or two things.
1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 55 Freak, one who practices socially unaccepted forms of sexual love.
1988 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 25 May 3 a God, what a freak! Kinky! Here he is up there preaching for all this money, and when I see him, he's kinky and cheap, too.
1999 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 18 Dec. o4 An image was painted in my mind of a ‘freak’, a cross-dressing pervert.
(b) A homosexual person; a gay man or a lesbian.The emergence of this specific use from the more general sense 4a is reflected in quot. 1937 at Additions b(a); its apparent reabsorption is similarly suggested by the later quots. below, which can plausibly be assigned to either sense.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person
urning1883
invert1892
homosexual1894
Uranist1895
homosexualist1898
Uranian1908
intersexualc1910
homoerotic1915
homo1923
one of those1927
freak1941
homophile1945
gay1953
consenting adult1957
minty1957
lesbigays1992
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male
badlingeOE
nan1670
molly1708
Miss Molly1754
Miss Nancy1824
molly mop1829
poof1833
Margery?c1855
Mary Ann1868
pretty-boy1881
cocksucker1885
poofter1889
queer1894
fruit1895
fairy1896
homosexualist1898
puff1902
pussy1904
nance1910
quean1910
girl1912
faggot1913
mouser1914
queen1919
fag1921
gay boy1921
maricon1921
pie-face1922
bitch1923
Jessie1923
tapette1923
pansy1926
nancy boy1927
nelly1931
femme1932
ponce1932
punk1933
queerie1933
gobbler1934
jocker1935
queenie1935
iron1936
freak1941
swish1941
flit1942
tonk1943
wonk1945
mother1947
fruitcake1952
Mary1953
twink1953
swishy1959
limp wrist1960
arse bandit1961
leather man1961
booty bandit1962
ginger beer1964
bummer1965
poofteroo1966
shirtlifter1966
battyman1967
dick-sucker1968
mo1968
a friend of Dorothy1972
shim1973
gaylord1976
twinkie1977
woofter1977
bender1986
knob jockey1989
batty boy1992
cake boy1992
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > female
tribade1585
rubster1657
lesbian1732
Tommy1773
Sapphist1789
cunt-sucker1868
cunt lapper1916
lez1929
muff-diver1930
dyke1931
lesbo1931
lezzie?1939
freak1941
lezzo1941
Lizzie1949
lesbie1966
lezzer1966
rug muncher1981
Sapphic1985
carpet muncher1992
1896 in J. N. Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 292 This sudden mannish passion, palpitating under a tea gown, makes things difficult for the..freak.]
1941 G. Legman in G. W. Henry Sex Variants II. 1166 Freak, a homosexual.
1962 H. Kane Killer's Kiss xxvii. 207 Duffy was no queen, no platinum-dyed freak, no screaming faggot.
1966 ‘Petronius’ N.Y. Unexpurgated 40 Most run-of-the-mill heteros [have] been run out by the freaks.
1985 Callaloo No. 24. 347 McVowtee. Your lips must be chapped! (He grabs Sunny's face and attempts to smear chap-stick on his lips. Sunny resists and stands) Sunny. Uh-uh! I ain't gonna sit here and let you make some kind of freak outta me!
1990 A. H. Vachss Blossom i. xi. 27 ‘He never loved me at all!’, the freak sobbed.
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U.S. slang (esp. in African-American usage). An attractive young woman or (rare) man. Also derogatory: a promiscuous or ‘easy’ woman.
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1955 Amer. Speech 30 302 ‘The chick is a real cool freak.’.. Freak chick here simply means a pretty girl.
1965 C. Brown Manchild in Promised Land xi. 290 I got a freak up there. You get in bed with this chick one time, and I guarantee that you'll lose your mind.
1986 ‘Ice T’ Six in Morning (song) in B. Cross It's not about Salary (1993) 25 Posse'd to the corner where the fly girls chill, Threw some action at some freaks 'til one bitch got ill.
1992 Face Feb. 47/1 They liked to be jocked by freaks, you know, hit on by good-looking guys.
2000 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 19 Sept. b5 [He] told Johnson he had a ‘freak’ at his house Johnson could have sex with... He says there was no force, it was all consensual.
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U.S. slang (chiefly in African-American usage). to get one's freak on.
a. To engage in sexual activity, esp. of an unconventional or uninhibited nature.
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1994 T. Woods True to Game xiv. 172 They might be up there getting their freak on.
1999 ‘Sister Souljah’ Coldest Winter Ever xiv. 236 GS is ready for some pussy. Who wants to give up the pussy? If you're not here to get your freak on, bounce now.
2013 L. Love & J. Amber Love him or leave Him vii. 169 While you're worried about his momma catching you getting your freak on, what you should be worried about is why a grown man has his momma doing his laundry!
b. To dance, esp. in an uninhibited, wild, or exuberant fashion.
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1999 J. G. Spady et al. Street Conscious Rap viii. 436 It's time to get your freak on at 4242 Spruce. The speakers are bumpin', the floor is bouncin', and the dynamic bodies are groovin'. Getting their freak on.
2001 ‘Missy Elliott’ & ‘Timbaland’ (title of song) Get ur freak on.
2003 E. Sewell in W. F. Cooper et al. Sistergirls.com 106 Sandra got caught up in the music and began dropping her ass like it was hot. ‘That's right, girl! Represent for the big women because we know how to get our freak on.’
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freak dance v. intransitive to perform the freak dance.
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1997 Lowrider Apr. 146/2 The girls freak dancing make such an effect, If you watch too long, you'll probably wreck.
2001 USA Today (Nexis) 1 June 1 a A small group, perhaps 10 out of 200 kids, freak-dance at her school functions.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Dec. i. 39/2 She likes to freak dance and does not see anything wrong with it... ‘For our generation, sex is more casual.’
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freak dance n. (a) a novelty dance, briefly popular in the late nineteenth century, reportedly involving the use of one or more artificial limbs by the dancer (now historical); (b) a type of dance in which partners are in close proximity and move in a sexually provocative way, typically with a female dancer gyrating her buttocks against the crotch of a male dancer.
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1893 Music & Drama 18 Feb. 8 I have already copyrighted my dance. It is called the ‘Freak Dance’. and I have also patented the apparatus.
1895 Middlesex Courier 1 Feb. 7/6 The four-legged freak dance by Miss Delaine was curious-in the-extreme.
1979 Billboard 20 Jan. 58/3 By the summer of 1978 the freak dance was just coming out and we wrote ‘Le Freak’ to capitalize on it.
2012 S. Lester Pretty Girls don't always get Man 50 She was into the whole ‘freak-dance’ fad that..would allow a couple to immolate sexual acts while dancing, with their clothes on.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
freakn.2
/friːk/, U.S. /frik/ A fleck or streak of colour.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > fleck
fleck1804
freak1870
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1871) 215 These quaint freaks of russet [in an old book] tell of Montaigne.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
freakv.
/friːk/, U.S. /frik/ 1. transitive. To fleck or streak whimsically or capriciously; to variegate. Usually in past participle.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > stripe [verb (transitive)] > streak
lace1485
betracea1500
strake1537
streak1595
flake1615
freak1638
belace1648
striate1709
bestreak1726
beseam1839
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 24 in Justa Edouardo King The pansie freaktd with jeat.
1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 226 And dark-embrown'd, Or beauteous freakt with many a mingled Hue.
1834 W. Beckford Italy I. 80 Collecting dianthi freaked with beautifully varied colours.
1880 A. C. Swinburne Stud. in Song 15 The very dawn was..freaked with fire.
2. intransitive. To practise freaks; to sport, gambol, frolic.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)]
floxec1200
ragea1275
to dance antics1545
rig1570
to keep (also play) reaks1573
wanton1582
wantonize1592
frolic1593
wantonize1611
hoit1613
mird?c1625
to play about1638
freak1663
romp1665
rump1680
ramp1735
jinket1742
skylark1771
to cut up1775
rollick1786
hoity-toity1790
fun1802
lark1813
gammock1832
haze1848
marlock1863
train1877
horse1901
mollock1932
spadger1939
grab-ass1957
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [verb (intransitive)] > specific system
freak1663
dancercise1967
jog1968
to pump iron1972
aerobicize1982
1663 [implied in: J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 140 After 4 daies time (in which Feak and his Freaking Partisans were almost run from their wits). (at freaking adj.)].
a1820 J. R. Drake Culprit Fay xxvi. 1836 Then glad they left their covert lair, And freaked about in the midnight air.
3. to freak out (occasionally without out): to undergo an intense emotional experience, to become stimulated, to rave, esp. under the influence of hallucinatory drugs. Also transitive, to cause (a person) to be aroused or stimulated in such a way. (Also in more trivial uses.) So freaked-out adj. affected thus. freaking-out n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [noun] > effects of hallucinatory drugs
trip1959
freaking-out1965
acid trip1966
freak-out1966
head trip1967
tripping1968
turn-on1969
trippiness1976
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [adjective] > affected by hallucinogenic drugs
freaked-out1965
tripped-out1973
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > be under influence of drugs [verb (intransitive)] > experience hallucinatory drugs
to freak out1965
trip1966
space1968
1965 Village Voice (N.Y.) 2/1 (advt.) Grand Opening!!! Freak with the Fugs!!! The East Side's Most Infinite Hallucination in Person.
1966 Life 25 Mar. 33/4 When my husband and I want to take a trip together..I just put a little acid in the kids' orange juice..and let them spend the day freaking out in the woods.
1967 Oxf. Mail 3 Mar. 4 ‘Freak out, baby,’ goes the latest rebel war whoop... Frank Zappa..answers: ‘On a personal level, freaking out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricted standards of thinking, dress and social etiquette.’
1967 Avatar (Boston) 7–13 July 13/2 (heading) Freaked-out in the Federal Building.
1968 It 1 Nov. 8/4 Suppose..that total freedom could be granted now, today. Have you thought of what it would mean? Freedom to freak-out, yes; freedom to do your thing, sure.
1969 Gandalf's Garden iv. 9/1 He was the first guy I had ever met who used his music to influence people, to turn them on, or freak them out.
1969 Daily Tel. 21 Nov. 4/7 Some ‘freaked-out’ teenagers cannot move, let alone sit up straight when they attend classes.
1970 It 27 Feb. 11/1 Aage leaps about and shouts at them and freaks them out.
1970 Times 5 May 9/3 The full African look..complete with enormous freaked out ‘Hair’ wig.
1970 Nature 23 May 704/1 One question asked the respondents how often they had seen other people ‘freak out’, that is, have intense, transient emotional upsets.
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