Spook

Definition: Spook

Spook

Noun

1. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.

2. A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past".

Verb

1. Frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action: "The noise spooked the horse".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spook" was first used: 1801. (references)

SPOOK

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Spook

Demon

Ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision; hobglobin, goblin, orc; wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures; evil eye.

Crosswords: Spook

Afrikaan (ghost, phantom), Dutch (ghost, phantom).

Have you or your family ever seen a spook, spectre or ghost (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Your girlfriend lives in the corner penthouse of Spook Central (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

A spook, or (Mad Monster Party?; writing credit: Forrest J Ackerman)

A hypochondriac spook. (Heart Condition; writing credit: James D. Parriott)

Spook and Span (1958)

The Spook Speaks (1947)

Spook Busters (1946)

The Spook Speaks (1940)

Spook Sport (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Murder Can Spook Your Cat: A Desire Shapiro Mystery (reference)

• Night of the Spook (reference)

• Spook Book: A Strange and Dangerous Look at Forbidden Technology (reference)

• Spook Files Omnibus Ii (reference)

• Spook Stories (Supernatural and Occult Fiction) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Spook Busters (reference)

• Spook Who Sat By the Door (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Spook Along With Zacherley (reference)

• Spook Tinsel Shoal (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Mel Roy on the stage mid-nite, spook party talking skulls, spirit slate writing, spirit table raising, ghosts from the dead. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Beginning with "spook": spook-in-residence.

Albanian

hije (apparition, background, cloud, color, colour, dark, ghost, loom, phantasm, phantom, propriety, reflection, reflexion, shade, shadow, spirit, umbra, wraith). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خيال (conceit, fantasy, fiction, ghost, illusion, imagination, phantasy, shade, shadow, shape, silhouette, spectrum, wraith), ‏أقلق (agitate, beset, concern, disconcert, disquiet, distress, disturb, ferret, fret, fuss, hop, molest, obsess, peck, perturb, rile, shake up, torment, trouble, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry), ‏روع (appal, appall, awe, cow, daunt, put the wind up, scare, stare, terrify, terrorize), ‏شبح (apparition, bogey, evil spirit, ghost, gremlin, idol, phantom, shade, shadow, shape, spectre, spectrum, spirit, sprite, wraith). (various references)

Bulgarian 

призрак (appearance, bogy, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, shape, spectre, spirit, vision, wraith), дух (fetch, ghost, mettle, mind, morale, pecker, phantasm, presence, shade, soul, spirit, tone, visitant). (various references)

Chinese 

幽灵 (Phantom, specter, spectre). (various references)

Czech

strašit (haunt), strašidlo (bugbear, fright, ghost, poltergeist, spectre, spirit), duch (apparition, esprit, ghost, gimp, mind, psyche, soul, spectre, spirit). (various references)

Farsi 

ترساندن (Abhor, Affray, Appall, Awe, Bash, Buffalo, Cow, Daunt, Deter, Feeze, Fray, Fright, Horrify, Huff, Intimidate, Scare, Shore, Threat, Tremble), جن (Bogey, Deuce, Elf, Goblin, Sprite, Urchin), روح (Esprit, Ghost, Numen, Phantom, Psyche, Specter, Spirit, Sprite, Umber, Umbra, Wraith, Zinc, Zing), شبح (Ghost, Phantom, Spectrum, Sprite, Umber, Umbra, Wraith), دیو (Bogey, Gnome, Goblin). (various references)

Finnish

kummitus (ghost), aave (apparition, ghost, phantom, spectre). (various references)

French

revenant (spirit), hanter, hanté, faire peur, effrayer, apparition. (various references)

German

spuk (din, fuss, ghost, palaver, phantom, racket, to-do). (various references)

Greek 

φάντασμα (apparition, bogey, bogy, genie, ghost, gnome, hobgoblin, phantasm, phantom, pixy, specter, sprite, wraith). (various references)

Hungarian

kísértet (apparition, appearance, bogey, boggle, bogy, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, shadow, specter, spectre, vampire, wraith), hazajáró lélek (ghost). (various references)

Italian

spettro (ghost, shadow, specter, spectre, spectrum, spirit, wraith), apparizione (apparition, appearance, ghost, glimpse). (various references)

Manx

scaan (apparition, double, ghost, reflection, spectre, spirit). (various references)

Pig Latin

ookspay.(various references)

Portuguese

fantasma (apparition, bogle, bugaboo, bugbear, eidolon, ghost, golliwog, haunt, hob, leprechaun, phantasm, phantom, shadow, spectre, spirit, wraith), espectro (bogle, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantom, spectre, spectrum, spirit, wraith), aparição (apparition, ghost, phantasm, phantom, spectre, spirit). (various references)

Romanian

stafie (apparition, ghost, shadow, spectre), spiriduş (brownie, elf, elfin, elves, familiar, Goblin, hobgoblin, sprite), nãlucã (apparition, chimera, ghost, shape, spectre), fantomã (apparition, Bogle, chimera, fetch, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, spectre, wraith, zombie). (various references)

Russian 

привидение (apparition, bogey, bogeyman, boggard, boggart, eidolon, fetch, ghost, shade, spectre, spirit, wraith). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sablast (bogle, ghost, specter, visitant), avet (apparition, bogey, bogle, ghost, phantom, specter, visitant). (various references)

Spanish

fantasma (bogey, bogie, ghost, hallucination, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, spectre, wraith), espectro (bogey, bogie, bogy, ghost, specter, spectre, spectrum), espía (keek, snooper, Spier, spy, warping). (various references)

Swedish

spöke (apparition, bogey, boggard, bugaboo, bugbear, fright, ghost, phantom, specter, spectre, spirit), spöka i, skrämma (alarm, appal, appall, browbeat, bulldoze, cow, daunt, fright, frighten, horrify, intimidate, overawe, scare, startle, terrify), underlig kurre (fuddy-duddy, queer fish). (various references)

Turkish

hortlak (ghost, ghoul, phantom), hayalet gibi görünmek, hayalet (apparition, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shades, shadow, specter, spectre, spirit, sprite, wraith), casus (beagle, emissary, gumshoe, infiltrator, intelligencer, spy), ajan (agent, courier, gumshoe, infiltrator, intelligencer, secret agent, spy). (various references)

Ukrainian

привид (apparition, appearance, boggard, bogy, caddy, eidolon, ghost, haunter, poltergeist, presence, spectre, waff, wraith), письменник-невидимка. (various references)

spooc. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spook": spooked, spookeries, spookery, spookier, spookiest, spookily, spookiness, spookinesses, spooking, spookish, spooks, spooky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spook" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Espoo, Isporock, pook, sook, speok, spoa, spoak, spock, spog, spoo, spoock, spood, spooh, spooj, spork, spoub, swook. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: kops, oops, sook.

-2 letters: kop, kos, ops, sop.

-3 letters: op, os, so.

+1 letter: pookas, spooks, spooky.

+2 letters: hookups, lookups, mopokes, spooked.

+3 letters: bookshop, cookshop, cooktops, cowpokes, hockshop, outspoke, palookas, passbook, pollocks, pothooks, prebooks, precooks, provokes, slopwork, slowpoke, smokepot, spookery, spookier, spookily, spooking, spookish, stockpot, stopcock, topknots, topworks, workshop.

+4 letters: bookshops, chapbooks, cockapoos, cookshops, copybooks, forespoke, hockshops, hoopskirt, openworks, outspoken, passbooks, peekaboos, photomask, pinkroots, playbooks, pokeroots, porkwoods, provokers, psalmbook, reaphooks, scrapbook, skidproof, slopworks, slowpokes, smokepots, spookiest, stockpots, stopcocks, woolpacks, workshops.