ghoulie ghoul

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Noun

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ghoulie ghoul (plural ghoulie ghouls)

  1. (rare, informal, hypocoristic) A ghoul (ghostly spirit).
    • 1999, Mona the Vampire, "Attack of the Living Scarecrow" (season 1, episode 1a):
      Principal Shawbly: Now if I started allowing vampires in the classroom, what would be next? Werewolves? Ghoulie-ghouls?
    • 2008, Francesca Lia Block, Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 157:
      It could be about a ghost of a man who helps a girl free herself from an evil demon ghoulie ghoul and how the girl lets go of her dad and ...
    • 2010, Will Aldis, Lily Wyatt, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 109:
      Gobbly goblins and ghoulie ghouls throw a dead man's party in the center of me, dancing around the bonfire.
    • 2016, Stephen Dilley, A Brains Poetry, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
      “Will someone save the citizen from ghoulie ghouls?” cry the Christian church's boys and girls.

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