freak
noun /friːk/
/friːk/
- (informal) a person with a very strong interest in a particular subject
- a health/fitness/jazz, etc. freak
Extra Examples- He's a real fitness freak— he goes to the gym every single day.
- For the real speed freak, there is a 2-litre, fuel-injection version of the car.
- I'm such a neat freak that I clean up after other people.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- computer
- fitness
- health
- …
- a bit of a freak
- (disapproving) a person who is considered to be unusual because of the way they behave, look or think
- She was treated like a freak because she didn't want children.
- He's going out with a real freak.
Extra Examples- I felt a bit of a freak in my strange clothes.
- Other students regarded him as a freak.
- What kind of sick freak is this guy?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- total
- sick
- feel like
- regard somebody as
- see somebody as
- …
- a bit of a freak
- (also freak of nature)(sometimes offensive) a person, an animal, a plant or a thing that is not physically normal
- This butterfly is a freak of nature, black and white instead of blue.
- In the past freaks were shown at fairs.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- total
- sick
- feel like
- regard somebody as
- see somebody as
- …
- a bit of a freak
- a very unusual and unexpected event
- By some freak of fate they all escaped without injury.
- This was no more than a freak of history.
Oxford Collocations Dictionarypreposition- freak of
- a freak of nature
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally meaning a whim or sudden change of mind): probably from a dialect word.