make strange
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editmake strange (third-person singular simple present makes strange, present participle making strange, simple past and past participle made strange)
- (idiomatic, especially of small children) To behave in a shy, uncommunicative, resistant manner when encountering an unfamiliar person or situation.
- 2009, Martha Long, Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed (2015 Seven Stories Press edition), →ISBN, (Google preview):
- "Come to Granny. You must surely be making strange, with all these foreign faces huffing and puffing around you, you poor little precious diddledums."
- 2009, Martha Long, Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed (2015 Seven Stories Press edition), →ISBN, (Google preview):