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===Etymology=== |
===Etymology=== |
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From {{etym|dum|nl}} {{m|dum|spoke}}, {{m|dum|spooc}}, from {{etym|dum|nl}} {{m|dum|spoke}}, {{m|dum|spoocke}}, {{m|dum|spoicke||wizardry, witchcraft}}. Further etymology unclear. Compare {{cog|gml|nl|spôk}} ; {{cog|nds|nl|spôk}}; older High German {{m|gmh|Spuch}}; modern High German {{m|gmh|Spuk}}. |
From {{etym|dum|nl}} {{m|dum|spoke}}, {{m|dum|spooc}}, from {{etym|dum|nl}} {{m|dum|spoke}}, {{m|dum|spoocke}}, {{m|dum|spoicke||wizardry, witchcraft}}, from {{etyl|gem-pro|nl}} {{m|gem-pro|*spōk|}}. Further etymology unclear. Compare {{cog|gml|nl|spôk}} ; {{cog|nds|nl|spôk}}; older High German {{m|gmh|Spuch}}; modern High German {{m|gmh|Spuk}}. |
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===Noun=== |
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Revision as of 05:00, 1 May 2017
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”); liken German Spuk (“ghost, apparition”), Middle Low German spok (“spook”), Swedish spok (“scarecrow”), Norwegian spjok (“ghost, specter”)
Pronunciation
- enPR: spo͞ok, (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) IPA(key): /spuːk/ - (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) Rhymes: -uːk
Noun
spook (plural spooks)
- A spirit returning to haunt a place.
- The visit to the old cemetery brought scary visions of spooks and ghosts.
- A ghost or an apparition.
- The building was haunted by a couple of spooks.
- A hobgoblin.
- (espionage) A spy.
- 2009, "Spies like them", BBC News Magazine (online), 24 July 2009:
- From Ian Fleming to John Le Carre - authors have long been fascinated by the world of espionage. But, asks the BBC’s Gordon Corera, what do real life spooks make of fictional spies?
- 2012, The Economist, Oct 13th 2012, Huawei and ZTE: Put on hold
- The congressional study frets that Huawei’s and ZTE’s products could be used as Trojan horses by Chinese spooks.
- 2009, "Spies like them", BBC News Magazine (online), 24 July 2009:
- A scare or fright.
- The big spider gave me a spook.
- (dated, derogatory) A black person.
- (philosophy) A metaphysical manifestation; an artificial distinction or construct.
- He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook. — Max Stirner
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:ghost
Translations
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- Dutch: neger (nl) c
- French: bamboula (fr) m
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Russian: ни́ггер (ru) m (nígger)
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Verb
spook (third-person singular simple present spooks, present participle spooking, simple past and past participle spooked)
- To scare or frighten.
- To startle or frighten an animal
- The movement in the bushes spooked the deer and they ran.
Translations
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Derived terms
See also
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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parameter)audio: (file)
Etymology
From Template:etym spoke, spooc, from Template:etym spoke, spoocke, spoicke (“wizardry, witchcraft”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *spōk. Further etymology unclear. Compare Middle Low German spôk ; Low German spôk; older High German Spuch; modern High German Spuk.
Noun
spook n (plural spoken, diminutive spookje n)
- phantom, ghost
- Geloof je in spoken? — Do you believe in ghosts?
- horror, terror
- het spook van de oorlog: the horror of war
- an annoying and intolerable woman
Synonyms
Verb
- English terms derived from Dutch
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/uːk
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Espionage
- English dated terms
- English derogatory terms
- en:Philosophy
- English verbs
- en:Occupations
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch neuter nouns