freaking
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Noun
freaking (plural freakings)
- (dated) A streak or variegation in a pattern.
- 1926, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Corsica, the Surprising Island, page 216:
- 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.
- 1937, My Garden (volume 10, page 234)
- […] 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.
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Adjective
freaking (not comparable)
- (minced oath, slang, chiefly US, euphemistic) Fucking.
- You're getting on my freaking nerves!
- (obsolete) Freakish.
- 1665 January 25, Pepys, Samuel, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 4, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, page 318:
- 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.
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Usage 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.
Translations
an intensifier — see fricking
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