2. Verb. (third-person singular of spook) ¹
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Definition of Spooks
1. spook [v] - See also: spook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spooks
Literary usage of Spooks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. One Thousand Gems: Striking Passages, Incidents and Illustrations by Thomas De Witt Talmage, William Henry Larrabee (1873)
"RELIGIOUS spooks.—On Sunday night your child does not want to go to bed. He cries
when compelled to go, and looks under the bed for some of the religious ..."
2. A Mandarin-Romanized Dictionary of Chinese: Including New Terms and Phrases by Donald MacGillivray (1921)
"... nei*-mu* nei*-ping* nei*-sh angl -ping* »lfl'4-Sft»fc» ne^-shih* nei*-shih*
nei*-ti* ftW ft] the spooks are about ..."
3. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1903)
"spooks or Ghosts are costumed in pure white flowing draperies. Stage should be
lighted with ... Enter spooks R. moaning, groaning and walking as if lost. ..."
4. Mrs. Stephens' New Monthly by Ann Sophia Stephens (1856)
"... and sits up with the children winter nights, when the window sashes rattle,
and the juvenile imagination suggests that there are i " spooks about. ..."
5. New England Joke Lore: The Tonic of Yankee Humor by Arthur George Crandall (1922)
"... CHAPTER VII LEGENDS OF RURAL spooks IT must be regretfully stated that the
old time folklore of the supposed supernatural has apparently vanished from ..."
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