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"ref": "1938, Marian E. Baer, The wonders of water",
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"ref": "2014, Inga Muscio, Autobiography of a Blue-eyed Devil",
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"ref": "[1968, Fred Davis with Laura Munoz, “Heads and freaks: patterns and meanings of drug use among hippies”, in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, volume 9, number 2, →DOI, pages 156–164",
"text": "Anyone […] who seems \"hung up\" on some idea, activity or interactional disposition, might be called a \"freak.\"]",
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"ref": "[1969, Paul A. Eschholz, “Freak compounds for \"argot freaks\"”, in American Speech, volume 44, number 4, →DOI, pages 306–307",
"text": "Presently […] college students […] use freak to denote any kind of enthusiast.]",
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"text": "She's a freak in the sack!",
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{
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"masculine"
],
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"ref": "1724, Jonathan Swift, On a Pen",
"text": "And then, with heart more hard than stone,\nHe pick'd my marrow from the bone.\nTo vex me more, he took a freak\nTo slit my tongue and make me speak:\nBut, that which wonderful appears,\nI speak to eyes, and not to ears.",
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"text": "It would be a great comfort to Mr. Weston, as he grew older—and even Mr. Weston might be growing older ten years hence—to have his fireside enlivened by the sports and the nonsense, the freaks and the fancies of a child never banished from home;",
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"feminine"
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"masculine"
],
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{
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"_dis1": "5 5 2 9 2 7 3 0 64 2 1",
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{
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"ref": "2011 February 9, Silianise Moise, Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, but . . ., Xlibris Corporation, page 145",
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},
{
"ref": "2014 February 4, John Nicholas Iannuzzi, Condemned: A Novel, Open Road Media",
"text": "They hear you, not out in the car, but when you practically say it to their face, they could make things hard for you, just to get back at you. You never know.” “Hey, Flor, not for nothin', but I don't give a freak about them guys or[…]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 December 23, Raven Steele, A Monster's Birth, Raven Steele",
"text": "Because I've seen the vampires up there, and they don't give a freak about anyone or anything. Tell me you are different.\" \"I am trying to be. The urges are hard to overcome, but, I assure you, you're safe with me.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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}
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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],
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"ref": "1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, page 240",
"text": "When the owner found a bunch of beatniks in there, he freaked, but that was later.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994, James Earl Hardy, B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-On-Black Love Story, Alyson Publishing, page 107",
"text": "But after one night turned into five days, I was freaking out. I missed him.",
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]
},
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[
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[
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[
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{
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{
"ref": "1930, Robert Seymour Bridges, The Testament of Beauty: A Poem in Four Books, Literary Criticism, page 20",
"text": "[…] in fine diaper of silver and mother-of-pearl freaking the intense azure; Now scurrying close overhead, wild ink-hued random racers that fling sheeted […]",
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],
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"A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (117.934 kilos)."
],
"links": [
[
"bodybuilding",
"bodybuilding#Noun"
],
[
"physique",
"physique"
],
[
"muscular",
"muscular"
],
[
"bodybuilder",
"bodybuilder"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (117.934 kilos)."
],
"topics": [
"bodybuilding",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Bob's a real video-game freak. He owns every games console of the last ten years.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "[1968, Fred Davis with Laura Munoz, “Heads and freaks: patterns and meanings of drug use among hippies”, in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, volume 9, number 2, →DOI, pages 156–164",
"text": "Anyone […] who seems \"hung up\" on some idea, activity or interactional disposition, might be called a \"freak.\"]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "[1969, Paul A. Eschholz, “Freak compounds for \"argot freaks\"”, in American Speech, volume 44, number 4, →DOI, pages 306–307",
"text": "Presently […] college students […] use freak to denote any kind of enthusiast.]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something."
],
"links": [
[
"enthusiast",
"enthusiast"
],
[
"obsession",
"obsession"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fanatic"
},
{
"word": "geek"
},
{
"word": "fan"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English endearing terms",
"English informal terms",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She's a freak in the sack!",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A very sexually perverse individual."
],
"links": [
[
"endearing",
"endearing"
]
],
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"(informal, sometimes endearing) A very sexually perverse individual."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "horn dog"
},
{
"word": "hypersexual"
},
{
"word": "pervert"
},
{
"word": "libidinist"
}
],
"tags": [
"endearing",
"informal",
"sometimes"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"African-American Vernacular English",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Get your freak on.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A wild dance."
],
"qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
"raw_glosses": [
"(African-American Vernacular) A wild dance."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1724, Jonathan Swift, On a Pen",
"text": "And then, with heart more hard than stone,\nHe pick'd my marrow from the bone.\nTo vex me more, he took a freak\nTo slit my tongue and make me speak:\nBut, that which wonderful appears,\nI speak to eyes, and not to ears.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1815, Jane Austen, chapter 17, in Emma, volume III",
"text": "It would be a great comfort to Mr. Weston, as he grew older—and even Mr. Weston might be growing older ten years hence—to have his fireside enlivened by the sports and the nonsense, the freaks and the fancies of a child never banished from home;",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A sudden change of mind"
],
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[
"sudden",
"sudden"
],
[
"change of mind",
"change of mind"
]
],
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"(dated) A sudden change of mind"
],
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"word": "whim"
},
{
"word": "vagary"
},
{
"word": "caprice"
},
{
"word": "fancy"
},
{
"word": "whim"
}
],
"tags": [
"dated"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms"
],
"glosses": [
"A streak of colour; variegation."
],
"links": [
[
"streak",
"streak"
],
[
"variegation",
"variegation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated) A streak of colour; variegation."
],
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{
"english": "birds",
"word": "superciliary"
},
{
"word": "vein"
}
],
"tags": [
"dated"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English euphemisms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011 February 9, Silianise Moise, Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, but . . ., Xlibris Corporation, page 145",
"text": "So why am I grieving over someone who doesn't even give a freak about me? These vindictive ideas flowed through my head. A part of me wanted to carve my name into his little Saturn leather seats, but I remembered they weren't leather.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014 February 4, John Nicholas Iannuzzi, Condemned: A Novel, Open Road Media",
"text": "They hear you, not out in the car, but when you practically say it to their face, they could make things hard for you, just to get back at you. You never know.” “Hey, Flor, not for nothin', but I don't give a freak about them guys or[…]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 December 23, Raven Steele, A Monster's Birth, Raven Steele",
"text": "Because I've seen the vampires up there, and they don't give a freak about anyone or anything. Tell me you are different.\" \"I am trying to be. The urges are hard to overcome, but, I assure you, you're safe with me.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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{
"word": "fuck"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Euphemistic form of fuck."
],
"links": [
[
"fuck",
"fuck#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"euphemistic",
"form-of"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fɹiːk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːk"
},
{
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "frēk"
}
],
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{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
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},
{
"word": "freik"
},
{
"word": "freke"
},
{
"tags": [
"Scotland"
],
"word": "frick"
}
],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prištjávka",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "прищя́вка"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kapríz",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "капри́з"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rozmar"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kapric"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"word": "oikku"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"word": "päähänpisto"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caprice"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Laune"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "skhedíasma",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "σχεδίασμα"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capriccio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sfizio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ghiribizzo"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kapríc",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "капри́ц"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ḱud",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ќуд"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pričúda",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "причу́да"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kapríz",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "капри́з"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čudáčestvo",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "чуда́чество"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capricho"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "sudden causeless change or turn of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antojo"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "čudák",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "чуда́к"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "podivín"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"pejorative"
],
"word": "magor"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blázen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "engerd"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "freak"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "original"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Freak"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"pejorative"
],
"word": "Spinner"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fricchettone"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "čúdak",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "чу́дак"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čudák",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "чуда́к"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "frik",
"sense": "nonconformist, especially in appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neologism"
],
"word": "фрик"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "rényāo",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"word": "人妖"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guàiwù",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"word": "怪物"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"word": "friikki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"word": "kummajainen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"word": "luonnonoikku"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "monstre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "phénomène"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "anormal"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"word": "miring"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "abnorme"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "furīku",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"word": "フリーク"
},
{
"alt": "へんじん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "henjin",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"word": "変人"
},
{
"alt": "怪物",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "goemul",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"word": "괴물"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "goejja",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"word": "괴짜"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "izrod",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "изрод"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uród",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "уро́д"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uródina",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "уро́дина"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uródec",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "уро́дец"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "frik",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neologism"
],
"word": "фрик"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "monstr",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "монстр"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čudóvišče",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "чудо́вище"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fenómeno"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "dyvák",
"sense": "oddball, especially in physiology",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дива́к"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "déforme"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "deforme"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fenomeno"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bizzarria"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nadšenec"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fanda"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "machr"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"word": "fanaat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"word": "-friikki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"word": "intoilija"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"word": "fanatique"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fou"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fana"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mordu"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Freak"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"pejorative"
],
"word": "Spinner"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "maniaco"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fanatico"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "patito"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "entusiasta"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "fanatik",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фанатик"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fanátik",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фана́тик"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čudák",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "чуда́к"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fanát",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фана́т"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "úmnik",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "у́мник"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "botánik",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бота́ник"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "jerk",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zadrót",
"sense": "person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "задро́т"
},
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