Freak

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[编辑] 解释

kI. noun

Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1563
1.
- a. a sudden and odd or seemingly pointless idea or turn of the mind
- b. a seemingly capricious action or event
2. archaic a whimsical quality or disposition
3. one that is markedly unusual or abnormal: as
- a. a person or animal having a physical oddity and appearing in a circus sideshow
- b. slang
  - (1) a sexual deviate
  - (2) a person who uses an illicit drug
- c. hippie
- d. an atypical postage stamp usually caused by a unique defect in paper (as a crease) or a unique event in the manufacturing process (as a speck of dirt on the plate) that does not produce a constant or systematic effect
4.
- a. an ardent enthusiast <film freaks>
- b. a person who is obsessed with something <a control freak>

II. adjective

III. verb

Date: 1964
transitive verb
- 1. to make greatly distressed, astonished, or discomposed — often used with out<the news freaked them out>
- 2. to put under the influence of a psychedelic drug — often used with out
intransitive verb
- 1. to withdraw from reality especially by taking drugs — often used with out
- 2. to experience nightmarish hallucinations as a result of taking drugs — often used with out
- 3.
  - a. to behave irrationally or unconventionally under the influence of drugs — often used with out
  - b. to react with extreme or irrational distress or discomposure — often used with out
? freaked adjective
? freaked-out adjective

IV. transitive verb

Etymology: perhaps from or akin to ［sup］1［/sup］freckle
Date: 1637
to streak especially with color <silver and mother-of-pearl freaking the intense azure — Robert Bridges ?1930>