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Definition of Spook
1. Noun. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
Generic synonyms: Disagreeable Person, Unpleasant Person
Derivative terms: Creep, Creepy
2. Verb. Frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action. "The performance is likely to spook Sue"; "The noise spooked the horse"
3. Noun. A mental representation of some haunting experience. "It aroused specters from his past"
Generic synonyms: Apparition, Fantasm, Phantasm, Phantasma, Phantom, Shadow
Derivative terms: Ghost
Definition of Spook
1. n. A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.
Definition of Spook
1. Noun. A spirit returning to haunt a place. ¹
2. Noun. A ghost or an apparition. ¹
3. Noun. A hobgoblin. ¹
4. Noun. (espionage) A spy. ¹
5. Noun. A scare or fright. ¹
6. Noun. (dated pejorative) A black person. ¹
7. Verb. To scare or frighten. ¹
8. Verb. To startle or frighten an animal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spook
1. to scare [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: scare
Medical Definition of Spook
1.
1. A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.
Alternative forms: spuke.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spook
Literary usage of Spook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Road to En-Dor: Being an Account of how Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad by E. H. Jones (1920)
"Therefore it behoved Molse to endeavour to bring this about by reporting to the
Constantinople authorities the things which the spook would tell him to ..."
2. Nome and Seward Peninsula: History, Description, Biographies and Stories by Edward Sanford Harrison (1905)
"A spook PILOT. ES HARRISON. THE discovery of gold on Candle Creek furnishes a
first class spook story. The man who brought the first news of the Candle ..."
3. The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania: 1694-1708 by Julius Friedrich Sachse (1895)
"... TOMBS ON spook Hn.L.«8 CHRISTIAN WARMER and his wife were not only solicitous
for the bodily welfare of the individual members of the ..."
4. Potter's American Monthly (1881)
""HE THOUGHT THAT HE SAW A REAL spook ON A BROOM ! ... said the spook, with a
comical lurch, " I see that you think every member of church Is safe, ..."
5. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1903)
"spook MARCH. spooks or Ghosts are costumed in pure white flowing draperies.
Stage should be lighted with white light; background, ceiling and sides of stage ..."
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