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From freak +‎ -ish.

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freakish (comparative more freakish, superlative most freakish)

  1. Resembling a freak.
  2. Strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre.
    • 1926, John Merton Aldrich, “Notes on Muscoid Flies with Retracted Hind Crossvein, with Key and Several New Genera and Species”, in Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume 52, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 7–28:
      In all this series there is an almost freakish tendency toward the development of characters usually regarded as generic, as a result of which most of the genera have only one known species each.
    • 2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4–1 Man Utd”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], BBC Sport, archived from the original on 22 October 2014:
      This was arguably a more emphatic win than that Old Trafford thrashing, without the freakish element and simply the result of City's vast superiority in all areas.
  3. Capricious, unpredictable.

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