English

freakbeat

From freak + beat, coined by English music journalist Philip Lloyd-Smee.

A compound of freak + beat

Middle English friken

English freak

Proto-Germanic *bautaną ‘to push’

Proto-West Germanic *bautan ‘to beat’

Old English bēatan ‘to beat’

Middle English beten ‘to hit or whip’

English beat

The story

From freak + beat, coined by English music journalist Philip Lloyd-Smee.

noun A genre of hard-driving British rock music, often from the 1960s and associated with a mod following.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / freakbeat