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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



... back, dear, but you'd hardly expect a respectable lady spook to visit the place with me stopping here. Even ghosts have regard ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds

... And how many times do you think you've been a spook yourself? You can't tell me that man is perfect; that he doesn't live more than one life; that the soul doesn't go on and on. Pshaw! The persistent personal energy must continue, or what is God? [CATHERINE has re-entered with another cup, ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm • David Belasco

... laughed Grimm indulgently. "Positively no! I refuse, point-blank. I'll do you any favour in reason. But I draw the line at being dragged into any of your absurd spook tests." ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco



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



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