make strange

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === make strange (third-person singular simple present makes strange, present participle making strange, simple past and past participle made strange) (idiomatic, especially of small children) To behave in a shy, uncommunicative, resistant manner when encountering an unfamiliar person or situation. 2009, Martha Long, Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed (2015 Seven Stories Press edition), →ISBN, (Google preview): "Come to Granny. You must surely be making strange, with all these foreign faces huffing and puffing around you, you poor little precious diddledums." ==== Translations ====