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- [spook]
- /spuk/
- /spuːk/
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- [spook]
- /spuk/
Definitions of spook word
- noun spook Informal. a ghost; specter. 1
- noun spook Slang. a ghostwriter. 1
- noun spook Slang. an eccentric person. 1
- noun spook Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person. 1
- noun spook Slang. an espionage agent; spy. 1
- verb with object spook to haunt; inhabit or appear in or to as a ghost or specter. 1
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Origin of spook
First appearance:
before 1795 One of the 43% newest English words
1795-1805, Americanism; < Dutch; cognate with German Spuk
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Parts of speech for Spook
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
spook popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 73% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for spook
verb spook
- accompany — If you accompany someone, you go somewhere with them.
- affright — to frighten
- agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- alarm — Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- bestir — to cause (oneself, or, rarely, another person) to become active; rouse
noun spook
- apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
- banshee — In Irish folk stories, a banshee is a female spirit who warns you by her long, sad cry that someone in your family is going to die.
- bogey — A bogey is something or someone that people are worried about, perhaps without much cause or reason.
- bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
- bogle — a scarecrow
adj spook
- macabre — gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
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