Synonyms for spook

Grammar : Verb

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Phonetic Transcription : spuk

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Définition of spook

Origin : 1801, from Dutch spook, from Middle Dutch spooc "spook, ghost," from a common Germanic source (cf. German Spuk "ghost, apparition," Middle Low German spok "spook," Swedish spok "scarecrow," Norwegian spjok "ghost, specter," Danish spøg "joke"), of unknown origin. Possible outside connections include Lettish spigana "dragon, witch," spiganis "will o' the wisp," Lithuanian spingu, spingeti "to shine," Old Prussian spanksti "spark."
Meaning "undercover agent" is attested from 1942. The derogatory racial sense of "black person" is attested from 1940s, perhaps from notion of dark skin being difficult to see at night. Black pilots trained at Tuskegee Institute during World War II called themselves the Spookwaffe.

verb frighten, scare

Example sentences :

The exciting evening with the Hoag spook had worked no lasting harm.
Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln

I'd have given more for her if I had known she owned a spook.
Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Cruise » by Burt L. Standish

It gets me what she was doing in that spook place alone at night.
Extract from : « The Pony Rider Boys in Texas » by Frank Gee Patchin

Here, according to report, the spook sank into a sunken grave.
Extract from : « Watch Yourself Go By » by Al. G. Field

I'll round up this spook tonight for good, and then the vassal's task is done.
Extract from : « The Ghost Breaker » by Paul Dickey

(Interrupting and looking at Duke) In just what way do you connect this spook with the treasure?
Extract from : « The Ghost Breaker » by Paul Dickey

Then you can come back at your leisure and keep the spook compact.
Extract from : « The Return of Peter Grimm » by David Belasco

I have been sneered at as a "spiritualist," a "spook hunter," an "agnostic."
Extract from : « The Return of Peter Grimm » by David Belasco

But sure it must be, seeing you have a voice of your own, which is a thing never yet given to a spook.
Extract from : « The Copper Princess » by Kirk Munroe

I made sure it was a spook, an' there wasn't a bit o' breath left in me.
Extract from : « Humorous Ghost Stories » by Dorothy Scarborough

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