freaking

F4R1E1A1K5I1N1G2
/ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/

adjective

Fucking.

“You're getting on my freaking nerves!”

Less commonScrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivefreaking (not comparable)
  1. USeuphemisticnot comparableslangminced oathFucking.

    You're getting on my freaking nerves!

    Synonyms: effing, flaming, flipping, fricking, frigging

  2. not comparableobsoleteFreakish.

    Thence home and visited Sir J. Minnes, who continues ill, but is something better, there he told me what a mad freaking fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath been, and is, and once at Antwerp was really mad.

    1665 January 25, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 4, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, page 318
adverbfreaking (not comparable)
  1. USeuphemisticnot comparableslangFucking.

    You think you're so freaking smart, don't you?

    2 more examples

    He was so scared he freaking ran into a police station.

    Suddenly his eyeballs are glazed with tears. “Mom, can you come get me,” he pleads. “Yeah, ’cause I freaking hate it here.[…]”

    2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 May 2021

    Synonyms: damn, flipping, wicked, above a bit, absolutely, sorely, widely, horribly

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of freak
nounfreaking (countable and uncountable, plural freakings)

plural freakings

  1. countabledateduncountableA streak or variegation in a pattern.

    […] so through every conceivable shade of red, lilac and purple to a vinous maroon of the deepest dye, with freakings and freckles and all manner of fantastic adornments.

    1937, My Garden, volume 10, page 234
    1 more example

    For the greater part of the time we were considerably above the sea, that took on a more vivid hue, more peacock freakings, for every yard we hung above it. Once in a way we got down to sea level, but only to mount again.

    1926, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Corsica, the Surprising Island, page 216
  2. countableuncountableA sexual style of dance similar to daggering.

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APA

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MLA

“freaking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/freaking. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “freaking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/freaking.

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