freak of nature

English

Noun

freak of nature (plural freaks of nature)

1. A monstrosity; a malformation; an abnormal organism.
2. In the variety-show business, a person or an animal on exhibition as showing some strange deviation from nature, such as a bearded woman or an albino.

Translations

monstrosity

• Finnish: luonnonoikku (fi)
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a person or an animal in the variety-show business

• Finnish: friikki (fi)
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References

• “freak of nature”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.