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Spook   /spuk/   Listen
Spook

noun
1.
Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.  Synonyms: creep, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy.
2.
A mental representation of some haunting experience.  Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spectre, wraith.  "It aroused specters from his past"






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"Spook" Quotes from Famous Books



... us!" he said in a choked voice, "at last I am quite mad. Look! there stands the spook of young Allan, the son of the English predicant who ...
— Marie - An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain • H. Rider Haggard

... rocky coast, A gibbering yet a gallant ghost, He dodders, dodders at his post, Nor nears the goal; For she, the spook he cares for most, Still ...
— The Merryweathers • Laura E. Richards

... testily, "and what if it is? Am I a spook that ye need stare at me so? Ye knowed me well enough ...
— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis



Words linked to "Spook" :   phantasma, wraith, fantasm, weirdie, affright, disagreeable person, phantasm, scare, specter, creep, unpleasant person, frighten, shadow, apparition, fright, phantom



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