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 spirit returning to haunt a place.

The visit to the old cemetery brought scary visions of spooks and ghosts.
Wiktionary
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

Other Word Forms of Spook

Noun

Singular:
spook
Plural:
spooks

Origin of Spook

  • 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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