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noun
1.
Informal. a ghost; specter.
2.
Slang. a ghostwriter.
3.
Slang. an eccentric person.
4.
Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a black person.
5.
Slang. an espionage agent; spy.
verb (used with object)
6.
to haunt; inhabit or appear in or to as a ghost or specter.
7.
Informal. to frighten; scare.
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Spooked
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verb (used without object)
8.
Informal. to become frightened or scared: The fish spooked at any disturbance in the pool.
Origin:
1795–1805, Americanism; < Dutch; cognate with German Spuk
1795–1805, Americanism; < Dutch; cognate with German Spuk
Related forms
spook·er·y, noun
spook·ish, adjective
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Word Origin & History
spook
1801, from Du. spook, from M.Du. spooc "spook, ghost," from a common Gmc. source (cf. Ger. Spuk "ghost, apparition," M.L.G. spok "spook," Swed. spok "scarecrow, Norw. spjok "ghost, specter," Dan. spøg "joke"), of unknown origin. Possible outside connections include Lettish spigana "dragon, witch,"
EXPANDspiganis "will o' the wisp," Lith. spingu, spingeti "to shine," O.Pruss. spanksti "spark." Meaning "undercover agent" is attested from 1942. The verb is first recorded 1867 in sense of "to walk or act like a ghost;" meaning "to unnerve" is from 1935. 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. Spooky is from 1854.
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