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Zany vs Freaky - What's the difference?

zany | freaky |

As adjectives the difference between zany and freaky

is that zany is unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish while freaky is resembling a freak.

As a noun zany

is (obsolete) a fool or clown especially one whose business on the stage was to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.

zany

English

Adjective

(er)
  • unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish
  • ludicrously or incongruously comical

    • Synonyms

    * wacky

    Derived terms

    * zaniness

    Noun

    (zanies)
  • (obsolete) A fool or clown. Especially one whose business on the stage was to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown
  • * John Donne
    • Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Preacher at once, and zany of thy age.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • So there he caught me lying like a zany on the ground. You may guess I stood at attention soon enough, but told him I was looking at the founds to see if they wanted underpinning from the floods.

    References

    * 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes

    freaky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • resembling a freak
  • (slang) odd; bizarre; unusual
    • I've heard the props and costumes in this play are quite freaky .
  • (slang) scary; frightening
    • Have you met the freaky new guy who moved in next door?
  • (slang) sexually deviant
    • The things she asked me to do were too freaky for me.

    Derived terms

    * get freaky

    See also

    * get one's freak on

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