freaky, a.
(ˈfriːkɪ)
[f. freak n.1 + -y1.]
1. = freakish.
| 1824 Blackw. Mag. XV. 453 Instead of..clipsome hedges and freaky meadows..his faded eye could only fall upon horrid bars and walls. 1891 Ibid. CXLIX. 107/2 Theodora was..a slippery, freaky little creature. |
2. In senses corresponding to freak v. 3. Also as quasi-adv.
| 1966 Young & Hixson LSD on Campus p. vi, I think it would do everybody good to take LSD. But soon it's gonna get pretty freaky. 1967 A. K. Baer et al. Study 18 LSD Users on Sunset Strip 208 Everybody in the car was positive he was on an acid trip. He was freaky. 1969 Observer 7 Dec. 25/1 ‘Live freaky, die freaky,’ was the judgment of a neighbour in Benedict Canyon on last August's Sharon Tate massacre. 1969 Gandalf's Garden vi. 10/3 Freaky-straights, either ordinary-looking people with fanatical ideas on one particular theme, like the ‘Flat Earth Society’, or people whose appearance is very weird but whose minds are channelled into one usual line of thought... The lack of light in the eyes betrays the freaky-straight. |
Hence ˈfreakiness.
| 1886 T. Roosevelt Hunting Trips 347 No other species seems to show such peculiar ‘freakiness’ of character, both individually and locally. |
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Add: ˈfreakily adv.
| 1946 Funk's New Pract. Stand. Dict. 527/1 Freakily. 1978 Washington Post 8 Oct. h1/6 His first solo album..was freakily remixed too fast, lending him a squeaky near-soprano. |