Definitions
Odd or unusual person, event, or enthusiast.
Word origin
From Middle English freke, freike (“a bold man, warrior, man, creature”), from Old English freca (“a bold man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-Germanic *frekô (“an active or eager man, warrior, wolf”), from *frekaz (“active, bold, desirous, greedy”), from Proto-Indo-European *pereg-, *spereg- (“to shrug, be quick, twitch, splash, blast”).
Used in a sentence
“The two-headed calf was a freak.”
“freak of nature, freak of the weather, freak of the imagination”
“[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 …”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Oddball”5 letters
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