freak
/fɹik/ sustantivo B2En español: friki, capricho, antojo
- Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable. · The two-headed calf was a freak.· freak of nature, freak of the weather, freak of the imagination
- 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.
- A hippie.
- A drug addict.
- A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).
- An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something. · Bob's a real video-game freak. He owns every games console of the last ten years.
- A very sexually perverse individual. · She's a freak in the sheets!
- A wild dance. · Get your freak on.
Plural freaks
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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Depend upon it, Marilla, she’ll cool off in a week or so and be ready enough to go back of her own accord, that’s what, while, if you were to make her go back right off, dear knows what freak or tantrum she’d take next and make more trouble than ever.
Just as soon as she grows out of one freak she takes up with another.
Author of ‘Some Freaks of Atavism’ (Lancet 1882).
But that which completed the almost masculine look Morcerf found so little to his taste, was a dark mole, of much larger dimensions than these freaks of nature generally are, placed just at the corner of her mouth; and the effect tended to increase the expression of self-dependence that characterized her countenance.
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