freaky

[ free-kee ]

/ ˈfri ki /

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adjective, freak·i·er, freak·i·est.

freakish.

Slang.

frightening.
weird; strange.
of or relating to freak.

Nearby words

freak out, freak show, freak-out, freaking, freakish, freaky, freckle, freckle-faced, freckly, fred, freda

Origin of freaky

First recorded in 1815–25; freak¹ + -y¹

Related forms

freak·i·ly, adverbfreak·i·ness, noun

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Examples from the Web for freaky

“Dwarf mistletoe is freaky, freaky, freaky stuff,” says David Watson, an ecologist at Charles Sturt University in Australia.
Mistletoe is the Vampire of Plants|Helen Thompson|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Arbor House is paying Leonard $3 million for Freaky Deaky, the one in the typewriter now, and the one after it.
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The year was 2006 and Allen, like her fellow UK countrymen Arctic Monkeys, was borne in the freaky fires of MySpace.
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None of which would have happened if Cathy and Chris Dollanganger hadn't done some freaky stuff in that attic.
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“I will Freaky Friday with you anytime,” one of the dads tells him.
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They made islands and peninsulas and isthmuses of green that were odd and freaky.
A Little Girl in Old New York|Amanda Millie Douglas
Seems as if it's swellin' and widenin' out, like one of these freaky toy balloons you blow up.
The House of Torchy|Sewell Ford
On through the desert slogged the man and on trotted the freaky animal whose colour made him outcast even from his own kind.
Dust of the Desert|Robert Welles Ritchie
I mean I had to just keep callin' her 'you'; and that gets kind of freaky when you're talkin' to anybody a good while like that.
Ramsey Milholland|Booth Tarkington
It was also freaky -- it made me realize that the next day, I was going to go away.
Little Brother|Cory Doctorow

British Dictionary definitions for freaky

freaky

/ (ˈfriːkɪ) /

adjective freakier or freakiest

slang strange; unconventional; bizarre

another word for freakish

Derived Forms

freakily, adverbfreakiness, noun

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