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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].
  1. 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
  2. "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
  3. 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
  4. Such freaky weather; cool and rainy nearly all day.
    — from Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864 by Lemuel Abijah Abbott
  5. It is a singular contradiction, but nature is freaky."
    — from Glories of Spain by Charles W. (Charles William) Wood
  6. 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
  7. "I regret to admit the fact, but I am a fat, shapeless, freaky-looking old woman.
    — from Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford
  8. What a mad, impulsive, freaky thing it is!
    — from Bart RidgeleyA Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. (Albert Gallatin) Riddle
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. It is abrupt, freaky, unexpected, and always communicates a little wholesome shock.
    — from Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs

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