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spook |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Spook \Spook\, n. [D. spook; akin to G. spuk, Sw sp["o]ke, Dan. sp["o]gelse a specter, sp["o]ge to play, sport, joke, sp["o]g a play, joke.] 1. A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written also {spuke}.] --Ld. Lytton. 2. (Zo["o]l.) The chim[ae]ra. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: spook n 1: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: {creep}, {weirdo}, {weirdie}, {weirdy}, {schmuck}] 2: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" [syn: {ghost}, {shade}, {wraith}, {specter}, {spectre}]
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