Freaking vs Strange - What's the difference?
freaking | strange |
A streak or variegation in a pattern.
* 1926 , Hildegarde Hawthorne, Corsica, the Surprising Island (page 216)
* 1937 , My Garden (volume 10, page 234)
(euphemistic, slang, vulgar, chiefly, US) Fucking.
(obsolete) freakish
(euphemistic, vulgar, slang, US) Fucking.
Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
* Milton
Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
* Shakespeare
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, pages 48–49:
(physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
* 2004 Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford, page 93:
(obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
* Shakespeare
* Ascham
(obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Backward; slow.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To alienate; to estrange.
(obsolete) To be estranged or alienated.
(obsolete) To wonder; to be astonished.
(slang, uncountable) vagina
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As a verb freaking
is .As a noun freaking
is a streak or variegation in a pattern.As an adjective freaking
is (euphemistic|slang|vulgar|chiefly|us) fucking.As an adverb freaking
is (euphemistic|vulgar|slang|us) fucking.As a proper noun strange is
.freaking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
Adjective
(-)- You're getting on my freaking nerves!
- (Samuel Pepys)
Synonyms
* effing, flaming, flipping, frickingUsage notes
* Freaking' is often used in motion pictures as a substitute for ' fucking so that characters can be shown to swear without the motion picture incurring censorship or a higher certificate than it otherwise might.Adverb
(-)- You think you're so freaking smart, don't you?
- He was so scared he freaking ran into a police station.
strange
English
Adjective
(er)- He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
- Sated at length, erelong I might perceive / Strange alteration in me.
- I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
- Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
- She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.
- A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
- one of the strange queen's lords
- I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.
- She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.
- (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
- Who, loving the effect, would not be strange / In favouring the cause.
- In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange .
Synonyms
* (not normal) bizarre, fremd, odd, out of the ordinary, peculiar, queer, singular, unwonted, weird * (qualifier, not part of one's experience): new, unfamiliar, unknown * See alsoAntonyms
* (not normal) everyday, normal, regular (especially US), standard, usual, unsurprising * (qualifier, not part of one's experience): familiar, knownDerived terms
* for some strange reason * like a cat in a strange garret * strange as it may seem * strange bird * strangelet * strange matter * strange quark * strangely * strangeness * strangeonium * stranger things happen at sea, stranger things have happened at sea * strange to say * truth is stranger than fictionVerb
(strang)- (Glanvill)
