Literary notes about freaky (AI summary)
In literature, "freaky" functions as a versatile descriptor that evokes sensations of strangeness, eccentricity, and even unsettling beauty. It can highlight a personal unease or alienation, as when a character feels conspicuously odd or watched [1], and it may also be used playfully to depict an unconventional appearance, such as a garment compared to a masquerade costume [2]. The term further extends to the natural world, capturing the unpredictable and capricious elements of the environment—from the mood of an isolated summer landscape [3] or eerie weather [4] to nature’s inherent contradictions [5]. At times, "freaky" characterizes individuals with quirky or unsettling traits, whether in the context of prolonged interactions that begin to feel disconcerting [6] or in self-descriptions that lean toward the bizarre [7]. It even touches on impulsive or fantastical attributes in both animate and inanimate subjects, ranging from mad, unpredictable actions [8] to surreal phenomena like freaky lightning [9] and unusual ecological formations [10], ultimately contributing layers of humor, shock, or reflective intensity to the narrative [11].
- Why should we always be pointed out in this way {2} and made to feel conspicuous and freaky?
— from Marion: The Story of an Artist's Model by Winnifred Eaton - "You got the nerve to stand there and tell me this here garment is freaky like a masquerade costume.
— from Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass - Those who dwell here the year round find most satisfaction when the summer guests have gone and they are alone with freaky nature.
— from Their Pilgrimage by Charles Dudley Warner - Such freaky weather; cool and rainy nearly all day.
— from Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864 by Lemuel Abijah Abbott - It is a singular contradiction, but nature is freaky."
— from Glories of Spain by Charles W. (Charles William) Wood - I mean I had to just keep callin' her 'you'; and that gets kind of freaky when you're talkin' to anybody a good while like that.
— from Ramsey Milholland by Booth Tarkington - "I regret to admit the fact, but I am a fat, shapeless, freaky-looking old woman.
— from Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford - What a mad, impulsive, freaky thing it is!
— from Bart RidgeleyA Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. (Albert Gallatin) Riddle - The rancher had been stripped of every vestige of clothing by the freaky lightning.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico; Or, The End of the Silver Trail by Frank Gee Patchin - They made islands and peninsulas and isthmuses of green that were odd and freaky.
— from A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda M. Douglas - It is abrupt, freaky, unexpected, and always communicates a little wholesome shock.
— from Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs