spook
Meanings
Plural: spooks
Noun
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- A ghost or phantom.
- A hobgoblin.
- A scare or fright.
- An undercover agent, spy, or intelligence analyst.
- A black person.
- A metaphysical manifestation; an artificial distinction or construct.
- A psychiatrist.
- A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present.
Verb
- frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action
- "The noise spooked the horse"
- To frighten or make nervous (especially by startling).
- To become frightened (by something startling).
- To haunt.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”).
Synonyms
apparition, barghest, creep, duppy, eidolon, empuse, ghost, haint, haunt, jumbie, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, specter, spectre, spirit, spook, sprite, visitant, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy, wraith
Scrabble Score: 11
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