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单词 spook
释义 spook
I. \ˈspük sometimes ˈspu̇k\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Dutch, from Middle Dutch spooc; akin to Middle Low German spōk ghost
1. : ghost, specter, apparition, hobgoblin
 < the strange spook … crept out of heaven on a windless night — S.V.Benét >
specifically : an apparition in a spiritualistic séance
 < became a spiritualist, believing in the power of spooksAmerican Mercury >
2. slang : a queer or strange person : oddball
 < a blind date? What is she, a real spook — Oakley Hall >
3. slang : ghost-writer
 < a writer signed to do the movie script as the spook — Louis Messolonghites >
 < professional spook … to ghostwrite a novel — David Dempsey >
4. slang : negro
 < what's a spook? A Negro — like me — Robert Lowry >
 < stop talking like a spook … I mean stop talking like most colored folks — Langston Hughes >
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
1. : to inhabit or visit as a spook : haunt
 < forces that spook the old world — W.M.Meredith >
2.
 a. : to stir up or excite (as a horse or steer) especially by frightening
  < if you come up too fast and spook a deer it takes off — R.E.Maw >
  < the entire herd got spooked and stampeded into the mountains — H.W.Anderson >
 b. slang : to frighten (a person) often so as to make run, freeze, or tremble : scare
  < too shrewd a detective to spook the pair with direct questions — Chris Edwards >
  < those kids had me spooked all right … they wanted to kill somebody — Ernest Hemingway >
3. slang : ghostwrite
 < spooked the reminiscences of the actor >
intransitive verb
: to flee, scramble, tremble, stampede, or balk as a result of fright
 < wolves would spook as the plane flew over — Alaska Sportsman >
III. noun
: an undercover agent : spy
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