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Spook

noun

Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric. Synonyms: creep, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy.

A mental representation of some haunting experience. Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spectre, wraith. "It aroused specters from his past"

verb

Frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action.

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"Spook" Quotes from Famous Books

... S'pose I want ter lose my boat an' my life? I'se jis' busted, an' I kin neber go out on de harbor agin widout fearin' I see young Marse Houghton's spook. I'se wus off dan you is, but I'se he'p you wen we gits asho', if you ...

— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe

... wished her viola was a Strad, Mr. Bradshaw's mind shortly became conscious that some passing spook, of a low nature, had murmured almost inaudibly that it was a good job his Strad wasn't a viola. "Because, you see," added the spook, "that quashes all speculation whether you, Mr. Bradshaw, are glad or sorry you needn't lay your instrument ...

— Somehow Good • William de Morgan

... "Mr. McLean encountered a spook on his way over here," laughed the major, seeing that McLean, in embarrassment, knew not how to reply. "He ran afoul of a flying Dutchwoman out on the parade in the dark, and was mystified because she would not stop ...

— 'Laramie;' - or, The Queen of Bedlam. • Charles King

... far off-eyes). "Then that's why she was so awful skeerd and frightened! Just jumpin' outer her skin with horror. I reckoned it was a b'ar or panther or a spook! You ought to have waited till she got accustomed to ...

— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte

... red devil this side of Fort Sill, and at Skeleton Spring, and at Bull Foot Spring, and a mile from Doan's store—always at night, for it never rises except at night, as befits a good ghost. I reckon I'll waste cartridges on that spook as long as I hit the trail, but I don't never expect to draw blood. Others has saw him, too, but me more especial. I reckon I'm the biggest sinner of the G-Bar and has to be plagued most frequent with visitations to make me a better man when ...

— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis

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