English Dictionary

freak

IPA（発音記号）

/fɹiːk/

名詞

古風 愛称 くだけた表現 時々 婉語 活用形

(dated) A sudden change of mind / (dated) Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable. / A hippie. / A drug addict.

日本語の意味

突発的な気分の変化 / 極めて風変わりで予測不可能な人や物 / ヒッピー / 麻薬中毒者

At the last minute he had a freak and declined the promotion.

直前になって彼は突然の心変わりをして、その昇進を辞退した。

意味（1）

(dated) 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, I speak to eyes, and not to ears.

意味（2）

(dated) Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.

[H]aving a dinner-party at his rooms to entertain some friends from London, nothing would satisfy Mr. Foker but painting Mr. Buck’s door vermilion, in which freak he was caught by the proctors …

意味（3）

A hippie.

When long-haired, outlandishly dressed, drug-using hippies pilgrimaged to Haight-Ashbury in the early 1960s, they were quickly dubbed freaks; the pejorative appellation was both obvious and intended. It was not long before freak had become practically synonymous with hippie. It seems, however, that with the acceptance of long hair, the appearance and popularity of some rather bizarre fashions, and the emphasis placed upon doing one's own thing, freak is no longer burdened with all of its former derogatory associations. Instead […] the word is beginning to acquire a quality which is favorable, glamorous, and somehow even admirable.]

意味（4）

A drug addict.

Smith and Sturges [June 1969] note in their study of the San Francisco drug scene that freak means anyone addicted to drugs.]

意味（5）

A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance due to a severe medical condition (originally, a freak of nature); later extended to meaning a person who is extremely abnormal in social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, especially in physiology (e.g., "circus freak"); 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 color.

意味（6）

(bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (117.934 kilos).

意味（7）

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.]

意味（8）

(informal, sometimes endearing) A very sexually perverse individual.

She's a freak in the sack!

意味（9）

(dated) A streak of colour; variegation.

意味（10）

Euphemistic form of fuck.

So why am I grieving over someone who doesn't even give a freak about me? These vindictive ideas flowed through my head. A part of me wanted to carve my name into his little Saturn leather seats, but I remembered they weren't leather.

freaks （ plural ）