n.
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(also freak of nature)
a person, animal, or plant with a physical abnormality.
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[often as modifier]
a very unusual and unexpected event:
a freak storm.
- informal a person who is obsessed with a particular activity or interest:
a fitness freak.
- archaic a whim.
v.
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(usu. freak out)
informal behave or cause to behave in a wild and irrational way.
- archaic fleck or streak randomly.
Derivative
- freakish adj.
- freakishly adv.
- freakishness n.
Etymology
C16: prob. from a dial. word.