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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
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Singular spook |
Plural spooks |
spook (plural spooks)
- A spirit returning to haunt a place
- The visit to the old cemetery brought scary visions of spooks and ghosts.
- a ghost or an apparition
- a hobgoblin.
- A spy.
- 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? — Spies like them, BBC News Magazine (online), Friday, 24 July 2009
- (dated) (pejorative) A black person
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:ghost
Verb
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Infinitive to spook |
Third person singular spooks |
Simple past spooked |
Past participle spooked |
Present participle spooking |
to spook (third-person singular simple present spooks, present participle spooking, simple past and past participle spooked)
- to scare or frighten someone or
- to frighten an animal
Translations
- Finnish: pelotella (1), säikyttää (2)
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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)
- phantom, ghost
- Geloof je in spoken? — Do you believe in ghosts?
- horror, terror
- het spook van de oorlog: the horror of war
- an annoying and intolerable woman
Verb
spook
- The first-person singular present tense of spoken.
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Exchange Morning Post, Canada
Her books Stiff and Spook sprung out of research done for a proposed Salon column called the Dead Beat (sadly, it was killed). Her most recent book, Bonk, is a romp through the current landscape of gynecology, sex research and the adult novelty ...
