Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
freaking en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
- /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/
Meanings
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(US, euphemistic, not-comparable, qualifier:minced oath, slang) Fucking.
You're getting on my freaking nerves!
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Freakish.
Thence home and visited Sir J. Minnes, who continues ill, but is something better, there he told me what a mad freaking fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath been, and is, and once at Antwerp was really mad.
1665 January 25, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 4, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, page 318:
Deriveds
absofreakinglutely · fanfreakingtastic · freaking gosh · motherfreaking
Synonyms
fricking · frigging · flaming · flipping · effing
freaking en · ADV
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
- /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/
Meanings
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(US, euphemistic, not-comparable, slang) Fucking.
He was so scared he freaking ran into a police station.
You think you're so freaking smart, don't you?
Suddenly his eyeballs are glazed with tears. “Mom, can you come get me,” he pleads. “Yeah, ’cause I freaking hate it here.[…]”
2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 May 2021:
Synonyms
vastly · pretty · damn · passing · but good · somewhat · above a bit · way · wicked · sorely · mightily · eminently · very · horrendously · swith · exceedingly · freaking · ever so · widely · fucking · specially · damn · horribly · flipping · quite · very much · flipping · really · wicked · way too · all · right · sore · strongly · jolly · in spades · highly · absolutely · all too · main · murrain · wickedly · truly · abundantly · simply · greatly · excessively · extremely · positively · completely · bone
freaking en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
- /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/
Meanings
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(countable, dated, uncountable) A streak or variegation in a pattern.
[…] so through every conceivable shade of red, lilac and purple to a vinous maroon of the deepest dye, with freakings and freckles and all manner of fantastic adornments.
1937, My Garden, volume 10, page 234:For the greater part of the time we were considerably above the sea, that took on a more vivid hue, more peacock freakings, for every yard we hung above it. Once in a way we got down to sea level, but only to mount again.
1926, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Corsica, the Surprising Island, page 216:
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(countable, uncountable) A sexual style of dance similar to daggering.
Forms
freaking en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
- /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of freak