control freak

English

Etymology

From control +‎ freak. First use appears c. 1970 in the Los Angeles Times.

Noun

control freak (plural control freaks)

1. (informal) A person who is excessively controlling and domineering.
2. (informal) A tyrant or manipulator.

Derived terms

• control freakery
• control freakism

Translations

person who is excessively controlling

• Dutch: regelneef (nl) m
• Finnish: kontrollifriikki (fi)
• German: Kontrollfreak (de) m
• Hungarian: kontrollmániás, irányításmániás, hatalommániás, uralkodni akaró ember, akarnok (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kontrollfreak m, kontrollfrik m

• Polish: osoba apodyktyczna f
• Spanish: controlador (es) m, controladora (es) f, friki del control m or f, friki controlador m, controlador obsesivo m
• Turkish: kontrol delisi