spook
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4.7
- noun
- /spuk/
:
fantasma
- I got a big kick designing the spook house there.
- a spook house
- spooks and ghosts
- a spook story
Oh, well, spirit could be ghost, could be, could be spook as well.
- Oh, well, spirit could be ghost, could be, could be spook as well.
- You might say a ghost in the sense of a spook can't act.
Examples
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"How do you design a spook house?"
Fiction book (1998) -
"This must be the spook house
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- We can tell spook stories.
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Is this some kind of spook house and you didn't tell me about it?
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Have you or any of your family ever seen a spook, spectre, or ghost?
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Ed and Kathy ride through the old mechanical spook house.
Fiction book (1994) -
That's just kiddie spook stories.
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"My dad once took me and Bobbie to a spook house," said Isabel.
Fiction book (1998) -
Old age is resurrecting our childhood fears of spooks and ghosts.
Fiction book (1997) -
During Halloween, many children enjoy visiting the haunted house to see a spook or two.
Synonyms
56
8.6
A ghost that people say appears and frightens them at night
18
9.7
A ghost that makes loud noises and moves things
1
9.5
A spirit without a body that appears to people or stays near places
How Scary
- Literature
509
5.3
- Literature
18
9.7
- US
56
8.6
11
4.7
929
3.0
- Literature
19
8.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Spook (noun) was taken into English from an old Dutch word meaning 'ghost'. That is why spook still means a spirit or ghost that can scare people.