freakingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

freaking (not comparable)

1. (minced oath, slang, chiefly US, euphemistic) Fucking.

   Synonyms: effing, flaming, flipping, fricking, frigging

   You're getting on my freaking nerves!

2. (obsolete) Freakish.
   • 1665 January 25, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys‎, volume 4, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, page 318:

     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.

使用する際の注意点

• Freaking (or fricking) is often used in motion pictures as a substitute for fucking so that characters can be shown to swear without the motion picture incurring censorship or a higher certificate than it otherwise might.

派生語

副詞

freaking (not comparable)

1. (euphemistic, slang, US) Fucking.

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

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

   • 2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

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

動詞

freaking

1. present participle and gerund of freak

名詞

freaking (plural freakings)

1. (dated) A streak or variegation in a pattern.
   • 1926, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Corsica, the Surprising Island, page 216:

     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.

   • 1937, My Garden, volume 10, page 234:

     […] 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.