spooked

spook

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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [spook]
- /spuk/
- /spuːk/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [spook]
- /spuk/

Definitions of spooked word

noun spooked Informal. a ghost; specter. 1
noun spooked Slang. a ghostwriter. 1
noun spooked Slang. an eccentric person. 1
noun spooked Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person. 1
noun spooked Slang. an espionage agent; spy. 1
verb with object spooked to haunt; inhabit or appear in or to as a ghost or specter. 1

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Origin of spooked

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 Spooked

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

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spooked 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.

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Synonyms for spooked

adj spooked

afraid — If you are afraid of someone or afraid to do something, you are frightened because you think that something very unpleasant is going to happen to you.
anxious — If you are anxious to do something or anxious that something should happen, you very much want to do it or very much want it to happen.
ascared — frightened
bundle of nerves — a very nervous person
butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness

verb spooked

catenated — Connected in a chain or series.
dragooned — Simple past tense and past participle of dragoon.

noun spooked

ghosted — Simple past tense and past participle of ghost.

adjective spooked

jellyfish — any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
jittery — extremely tense and nervous; jumpy: He's very jittery about the medical checkup.
jumpy — subject to sudden, involuntary starts, especially from nervousness, fear, excitement, etc.
rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
wrecker — a person or thing that wrecks.

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