英和和英

語源

From freak +‎ -ish.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfɹiːkɪʃ/
• 韻: -iːkɪʃ

形容詞

freakish (comparative more freakish, superlative most freakish)

1. Resembling a freak.
2. Strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre.

   It was a realy freakish accident that claimed many lives.

   • 1926, John Merton Aldrich, “Notes on Muscoid Flies with Retracted Hind Crossvein, with Key and Several New Genera and Species”, in Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume 52, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 7–28:

     In all this series there is an almost freakish tendency toward the development of characters usually regarded as generic, as a result of which most of the genera have only one known species each.

   • 2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4–1 Man Utd”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, BBC Sport, archived from the original on 22 October 2014:

     This was arguably a more emphatic win than that Old Trafford thrashing, without the freakish element and simply the result of City's vast superiority in all areas.

3. Capricious, unpredictable.

   What freakish weather we are having lately in these parts.

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