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ˈspooking, vbl. n.
[f. spook v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of calling spirits; a séance.
1919E. H. Jones Road to En-Dor i. 2 ‘What's the suggestion?’ Alec asked. ‘Spooking,’ said I. ‘Cripes!’ said Alec... Matthews brought in the..table... Little wrote a letter of the alphabet on [squares] and arranged them in a circle... I polished the tumbler... We had constructed our first ‘Ouija’. 1930H. G. Wells Autocracy of Mr. Parham ii. iv. 135, I will not relax one jot or one tittle in these precautions until I have demonstrated forever the farcical fraudulence of all this solemn spooking.
b. Haunting, frightening.
1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. 224 The use of spook can extend to the frightening of people; it is not limited to physical spooking but can indicate mental frightening. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 v. 106 Oedipa wondered what hangups, crises, spookings in the middle of the night might be developed from the shadowed subtleties of his mouth, hidden under a full beard. 1979Angling July 19/3 The spooking of fish by striking at line bites.
2. The action of spying.
1977M. Herr Dispatches (1978) 51 The romance of spooking started to fall away..leaving the spooks on the beach. |