Meaning of make strange | Babel Free

Definitions

To behave in a shy, uncommunicative, resistant manner when encountering an unfamiliar person or situation.

especially, idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“Come to Granny. You must surely be making strange, with all these foreign faces huffing and puffing around you, you poor little precious diddledums.”

“At a certain age, usually around 8 or 9 months, varying from child to child, most (but not all) children start making strange, meaning they become shy or even hysterical when held or touched by people they do not know well.”

“When children present with separation anxieties, they visibly ‘make strange’ or become distressed when separated from their parents or caregivers.”

CEFR level