单词 | freakish |
释义 | freakishadj. 1. Full of freaks, characterized by freaks, capricious, whimsical. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical startfulmood?a1300 wildc1350 volage?a1366 gerfulc1374 geryc1386 wild-headeda1400 skittishc1412 gerish1430 shittle1440 shittle-witted1448 runningc1449 volageous1487 glaikit1488 fantasious1490 giggish1523 tickle or light of the sear?1530 fantastical1531 wayward1531 wantona1538 peevish1539 light-headed1549 humoral1573 unstaid1579 shittle-headed1580 toy-headed1581 fangled1587 humorous1589 choiceful1591 toyish1598 tricksy1598 skip-brain1603 capricious1605 humoursome1607 planetary1607 vertiginous1609 whimsieda1625 ingiddied1628 whimsy1637 toysome1638 cocklec1640 mercurial1647 garish1650 maggoty1650 kicksey-winseya1652 freakish1653 humourish1653 planetic1653 whimsical1653 shittle-braineda1655 freaking1663 maggoty-headed1667 maggot-pated1681 hoity-toity1690 maggotish1693 maggot-headeda1695 whimsy-headed1699 fantasque1701 crotchetly1702 quixotic1718 volatile1719 holloweda1734 conundrumical1743 flighty1768 fly-away1775 dizzy1780 whimmy1785 shy1787 whimming1787 quirky1789 notional1791 tricksome1815 vagarish1819 freakful1820 faddy1824 moodish1827 mawky1837 erratic1841 rockety1843 quirkish1848 maggoty-pated1850 crotchetya1854 freaksome1854 faddish1855 vagrom1882 fantasied1883 vagarisome1883 on-and-offish1888 tricksical1889 freaky1891 hobby-horsical1893 quirksome1896 temperamental1907 up and down1960 untogether1969 fanciful- fantastic- 1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 186 Without any such freakish conceits. 1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master i. i An ill-contrived, ugly, freakish fool. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 514. ⁋4 The most wild and freakish garb that can be imagined. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 605 His freakish thoughts. View more context for this quotation 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 249 We found our companions busily employed in securing the young freakish horses. 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair i. viii. 8 Her trees of tinsel kiss'd by freakish gales. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. iii. 57 Look at that sketch: it is a fancy of..a strange freakish painter. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 40 Our freakish climate. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. 122 The synthesis of title and right in Civil law may be freakish and capricious. 2. Of the nature of a freak, curious, grotesque. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > bizarre remote1533 antic1579 outlandish1588 bizarrea1648 outré1722 freakish1805 weird1820 freaky1824 weirdish1863 ostrobogulous1951 ostrobogulatory1952 far-out1954 weirdo1962 flaky1972 zonky1972 gonzo1974 mondo bizarro1976 mondo1979 woo-woo1986 freakazoid1990 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel ii. xi. 42 The osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined. 1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies lxxxviii, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 45 He..had stuck His freakish gauds upon the Ancient's brow. Derivatives ˈfreakishly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adverb] > bizarrely outlandishly1808 uncannily1822 weirdly1859 freakishly1873 bizarrely1884 kinkily1934 freakily1946 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Freakishly. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 204 But gods intervene mechanically and freakishly, like the magicians in Ariosto or Tasso. ˈfreakishness n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > bizarreness outlandishness1611 freakishness1678 bizarrerie1741 outréness1832 freakiness1886 bizarreness1920 ostrobogulosity1951 ostrobogulation1952 1678 Spanish Hist. 26 Let us admire the freakishness of worldly affairs. a1714 J. Sharp Wks. (1754) V. ii. 48 Such a piece of folly and freakishness. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 27 Apr. (1941) 46 That freakishness of humour which made me a voluntary idler. 1889 C. Smith Repentance Paul Wentworth II. 340 You..are fully persuaded I did it out of sheer freakishness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1653 |
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