Spook Definition
spo͝ok
spooked, spooking, spooks
noun
spooks
A specter; ghost.
Webster's New World
A spy or secret agent.
Webster's New World
Used as a disparaging term for a black person.
American Heritage
A hobgoblin.
Wiktionary
verb
spooked, spooking, spooks
To haunt (a person or place)
Webster's New World
To become frightened or startled.
A horse that spooks easily.
Webster's New World
To startle, frighten, make nervous, annoy, etc.
Webster's New World
Origin of Spook
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From Dutch spook (“ghost"), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost"); liken German Spuk (“ghost, apparition"), Middle Low German spok (“spook"), Swedish spok (“ scarecrow"), Norwegian spjok (“ghost, specter"), Danish spøg (“joke").
From Wiktionary
Dutch from Middle Dutch spooc
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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