OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14355

freak

/fɹiːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fenómeno
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.
Gentrification often starts with the artists, revolutionaries, freaks, transfolks, and queers (what I would call my people) moving into poor neighborhoods inhabited by people of co…
fanático • friki
An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
Anyone […] who seems "hung up" on some idea, activity or interactional disposition, might be called a "freak."
Bob's a real video-game freak. He owns every games console of the last ten years.
antojo • capricho
A sudden change of mind.
And then, with heart more hard than stone, He pick'd my marrow from the bone. To vex me more, he took a freak To slit my tongue and make me speak: But, that which wonderful appears…
It would be a great comfort to Mr. Weston, as he grew older—and even Mr. Weston might be growing older ten years hence—to have his fireside enlivened by the sports and the nonsense…