spook
3
7.7
- noun
- /spuk/
:
fantasma
- I used the word "spooks," which fifty years ago was just a slang I know what it was slang for.
Examples
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They see spooks everywhere.
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Stephan was clearly trying to put a mild spook into his girl, perhaps hoping she'd cuddle closer to him in the twilight evening.
Blog text (28) -
Oh come on, man, I had enough of this spook shit.
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Is that all your spook is, honey?
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You've got the daddy of all spooks.
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You're one of Edward's spooks?
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And just for added weirdness, that original spook that Jill Kelly reported the harassing emails to?
Blog text (25) -
"This place gives me the spooks," said Jenny abruptly as the inside lock sighed slowly open onto an empty, silver-walled corridor.
Fiction book (1990) -
The scary movie left me with a lingering spook that I couldn't shake off.
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She often reminisced about the spook from her childhood that haunted her dreams.
Synonyms
116
6.1
A faint memory or feeling from the past that affects you
30
8.2
A worrying memory or thought that keeps coming back
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8.2
A memory or feeling from the past that makes you feel uneasy
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9.9
A disturbing memory that stays in a person's mind
Antonyms
How Haunting
Surface Forms
Etymology
Spook (noun) for a memory uses the same idea as a ghost that 'haunts' you. So a mental spook is a worry or fear that keeps coming back like a spirit.