Nerd vs. Freak
Nerdnoun
A person who is intellectual but generally introverted
Nerdnoun
One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.
Nerdnoun
An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork.
Nerdnoun
(post-1980s) A member of a subculture revolving around video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media.
Nerdnoun
an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively
Nerdnoun
a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious
Nerdnoun
a single-minded expert in a particular technical field
Nerd
A nerd is a person seen as overly intellectual, obsessive, introverted or lacking social skills. Such a person may spend inordinate amounts of time on unpopular, little known, or non-mainstream activities, which are generally either highly technical, abstract, or relating to topics of science fiction or fantasy, to the exclusion of more mainstream activities.
Freaknoun
A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
Freaknoun
Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
Freaknoun
A hippie.
Freaknoun
A drug addict.
Freaknoun
(of a person) A nonconformist, especially in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, especially in physiology (i.e., "circus freak"); unique, sometimes in a displeasing way.
Freaknoun
(bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 120 kilos (260 pounds).
Freaknoun
An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
Freaknoun
A very sexually perverse individual.
Freaknoun
(dated) A streak of colour; variegation.
Freaknoun
A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
Freaknoun
A fellow; a petulant young man.
Freakverb
(transitive) To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance
Freakverb
(transitive) To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug
Freakverb
(transitive) To streak; to variegate
Freakverb
(intransitive) To experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.
Freakverb
(intransitive) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure
Freakadjective
strange, weird, unexpected
Freakverb
To variegate; to checker; to streak.
Freakverb
to react with irrationality or extreme emotion; to lose one's composure; - often used in the phrase freak out.
Freakverb
to become irrational or to experience hallucinations under the influence of drugs; - often used in the phrase freak out.
Freakverb
to cause (a person) react with great distress or extreme emotion; - often used in the phrase freak out.
Freaknoun
A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
Freaknoun
a rare and unpredictable event; as, the July snowstorm was a freak of nature.
Freaknoun
an habitual drug user, especially one who uses psychedelic drugs.
Freaknoun
an animal or person with a visible congenital abnormality; - applied especially to those who appear in a circus sideshow.
Freaknoun
a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
Freaknoun
someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction;
Freakverb
lose one's nerve;
Freak
A freak is a person who is physically deformed or transformed due to an extraordinary medical condition or body modification. This definition was first attested with this meaning in the 1880s as a shorter form of the phrase , itself a broader term attributed at least as far back as 1847.
