spook

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English

Etymology

From Dutch spook (“ghost”).

Pronunciation

Noun

spook (plural spooks)

  1. A spirit returning to haunt a place.
    The visit to the old cemetery brought scary visions of spooks and ghosts.
  2. A ghost or an apparition.
  3. A hobgoblin.
  4. A spy.
    • 2009, "Spies like them", BBC News Magazine (online), 24 July:
      From Ian Fleming to John Le Carre - authors have long been fascinated by the world of espionage. But, asks the BBC’s Gordon Corera, what do real life spooks make of fictional spies?
  5. (dated, pejorative) A black person.

Synonyms

Verb

to spook (third-person singular simple present spooks, present participle spooking, simple past and past participle spooked)

  1. To scare or frighten.
  2. To startle or frighten an animal
    The movement in the bushes spooked the deer and they ran.

Translations

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun or verb spook

See also

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

Een spook zoals dat vaak in een kinderboek getekend wordt. A ghost such as is often drawn in a children's book.

spook n. (plural spoken, diminutive spookje, diminutive plural spookjes)

  1. phantom, ghost
    Geloof je in spoken? — Do you believe in ghosts?
  2. horror, terror
    het spook van de oorlog: the horror of war
  3. an annoying and intolerable woman

Verb

spook

  1. first-person singular present indicative of spoken.
  2. imperative of spoken.

 

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