spookn.

Brit.

/spuːk/, U.S.

/spuk/

Etymology: < Dutch spook, German spuk (also †spuch), apparently of Low German origin, appearing first in Middle Low German spôk, spoek, spouk, spûk (whence Middle Swedish spook, Danish spog), and older Dutch spoocke (Kilian); other modern forms are Low German spôk, spok, West Frisian spoek, North Frisian spook, spuk, Swedish spöke. No certain cognates have been traced.

1. A spectre, apparition, ghost. Often somewhat jocular or colloquial.First in American usage, which is illustrated separately in the first set of quotations.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun]

soulOE

huea1000

ghostOE

fantasyc1325

spiritc1350

phantomc1384

phantasmc1430

haunterc1440

shadowa1464

appearance1488

wraith1513

hag1538

spoorn1584

vizarda1591

life-in-death1593

phantasma1598

umbra1601

larve1603

spectre1605

spectrum1611

apparitiona1616

shadea1616

shapea1616

showa1616

idolum1619

larva1651

white hat?1693

zumbi1704

jumbie1764

duppy1774

waff1777

zombie1788

Wild Huntsman1796

spook1801

ghostie1810

hantua1811

preta1811

bodach1814

revenant1823

death-fetch1826

sowlth1829

haunt1843

night-bat1847

spectrality1850

thivish1852

beastie1867

ghost soul1869

barrow-wight1891

resurrect1892

waft1897

churel1901

comeback1908

(a)

1801 Massachusetts Spy 15 July By mine dunder I fly so swift as any spook.

1833 J. K. Paulding Banks of Ohio III. iii. 40 Who ever heard of a spook eating?

a1853 ‘Dow, Jr.’ Patent Serm. iii. 158 There did I see a Spook, sure enough,—milk-white, and moving round.

1878 W. H. Daniels That Boy i The corners of New England which spooks and spirits were the last to leave.

(b)1859 W. E. Aytoun & T. Martin tr. J. W. Goethe Poems & Ball., Magician's Apprentice 102 Broom, avaunt thee! To thy nook there! Lie, thou spook, there!1873 J. B. Stephens Black Gin 11 I am haunted by a spook with oblique eyes and a pigtail.1891 Tablet 19 Sept. 446 To what particular order of spook or spectre may he be assigned?attributive.1842 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 7 Mar. A-clatterin' the ghosts of dishes..as tho' he was bringin' in a spook-dinner.1878 A. Aylward Transvaal of To-day 213 I became acquainted with a ‘spooke story,’..which [etc.].1896 Westm. Gaz. 10 Jan. 3/3 An alleged spook-photo.

2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). An undercover agent; a spy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [noun] > a secret observer, spy > secret agent

intelligencer1540

intelligentiary1577

under-puller1682

agent1804

foreign agent1822

operative1901

spook1942

under-cover1962

Abwehr agent1990

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §458/16 ‘Spotter.’ (One who spys upon employees.).. Silent eye, spook, spotter.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §765/7 Rat, rubber heel, spook, spotter, a person employed to detect irregularities.

1954 People (Austral.) 3 Nov. 24/1 The spooks were senior constables who wore no uniform, worked in pairs and followed constables about the city and suburbs to see if they did their work properly.

1961 John o' London's 20 Apr. 434/1 The idea of making a living as a spy—‘spook’ in current Washington slang—is repugnant to most of us.

1966 R. Thomas Spy in Vodka (1967) vi. 50 I'd like him to get out of the spook business.

1979 L. Pryor Viper i. 9 ‘My training was also in espionage at the CIA farm.’.. ‘A spook,’ I said in wonder.

3. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). A derogatory term for a black person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun]

AfriceOE

MoorOE

EthiopOE

blomana1225

Ethiopiana1325

blue mana1387

Moriana1387

black mana1398

blackamoor1525

black Morian1526

black boy1530

molen1538

Nigro1548

Nigrite1554

Negro1555

neger1568

nigger1577

blackfellow1598

Kaffir1607

black1614

thick-lipsa1616

Hubsheea1627

black African1633

blackface1704

sambo1704

Cuffee1713

Nigritian1738

fellow1753

Cuff1755

blacky1759

mungo1768

Quashie1774

darkie?1775

snowball1785

blue skin1788

Moriscan1794

sooterkin1821

nigc1832

tar-brush1835–40

Jim Crow1838

sooty1838

mokec1847

dinge1848

monkey1849

Siddi1849

dark1853

nigre1853

Negroid1860

kink1865

Sam1867

Rastus1882

schvartze1886

race man1896

possum1900

shine1908

jigaboo1909

smoke1913

golliwog1916

jazzbo1918

boogie1923

jig1924

melanoderm1924

spade1928

jit1931

Zulu1931

eight ball1932

Afro1942

nigra1944

spook1945

munt1948

Tom1956

boot1957

soul brother1957

nig-nog1959

member1962

pork chop1963

splib1964

blood1965

non-voter1966

moolinyan1967

Oreo1968

boogaloo1972

pongo1972

moolie1988

1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 17/2 Spook (n), frightened negro.

1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxvii. 262 The boss of the ward..was doing time for going with ‘spooks’—negroes.

1966 New Statesman 25 Nov. 778/1 I find a disturbing minority of my English contemporaries..pointedly tossing off inconsequential remarks about spades and spooks in my company.

1977 E. Leonard Unknown Man No. 89 xxiii. 235 We almost had another riot... The bar-owner..shoots a spook in his parking lot.

Derivatives

Hence (as more or less colloquial or nonce-formations).

ˈspookic adj.

ΚΠ

1887 Sat. Rev. 11 June 823/2 The new spookic studies have come to stay.

ˈspookical adj.

ΚΠ

1886 Sat. Rev. 11 Dec. 773/2 Those who have watched..the recent outburst of spookical activity.

1886 Athenæum 25 Dec. 858/2 The great thing in the book is the creation of the ‘spookical’ uncle.

ˈspookish adj.

ΚΠ

1893 Athenæum 18 Mar. 343/2 There is some spookish mystery about a reappearance.

ˈspookism n.

ΚΠ

1886 Athenæum 25 Dec. 858/2 By his own rash act he resolved himself into spookism.

spookoˈlogical adj.

ΚΠ

1897 Westm. Gaz. 6 July 2/3 Everything happened in the most orthodox spookological manner.

spooˈkology n.

ΚΠ

1893 Westm. Gaz. 15 July 5 Spookology in Vienna.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

spookv.

Brit.

/spuːk/, U.S.

/spuk/

Etymology: < spook n. Compare Middle Low German spôken, Dutch spoken, German spuken (dialect spuchen); also West Frisian spoekje, North Frisian spooke, Swedish spöka, Danish spøge.

a. transitive. To haunt (a person or place).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [verb (transitive)] > haunt

haunt1597

ghosta1616

sprighta1616

phantom1845

spook1883

1883 O. Schreiner Story Afr. Farm i. ii She heard a rustling,..and knew it was your father coming to ‘spook’ her.

1976 Publishers Weekly 21 June 88/1 The ghost of the highwayman Black Charlie who spooks Flora with regular visitations.

b. To frighten or unnerve; spec. (of a hunter, etc.) to alarm (a wild animal). slang (chiefly North American).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing apprehension or alarm > alarm [verb (transitive)]

misforgivea1425

feezec1440

effray1480

amaze?1518

misgivea1535

deter1595

baze1603

alarm1620

larum1758

to put the wind up1916

spook1935

1935 E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. i. i. 13 We spooked one [kudu]... No chance of a shot.

1944 National Geographic Mag. June 669/1 To get photographs of the herds Williams took to the saddle, since a man on foot is liable to ‘spook’, or stampede them.

1959 W. Faulkner Mansion ix. 222 Pupils and teacher both who were already spooked..by the sudden presence of the unexplained white woman.

1973 A. Garner Red Shift 12 You're spooking me. You're too quiet.

1980 M. Gordon Company of Women (1981) ii. iv. 187 You always act like you're waiting for something... It spooks me.

2. intransitive.

a. To play the spook; to ‘walk’ as a ghost. Also with it and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [verb (intransitive)] > appear

walka1400

spook1871

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being eerie > be eerie [verb (intransitive)] > play the spook

spook1871

spook1928

1871 N.Y. Tribune 24 Feb. 1/5 Once he saw Toussaint L'Ouverture spooking about with an air of mournful majesty.

1886 Sat. Rev. 4 Dec. 751 Whether the Thibetan Adepts go spooking astrally through the world.

1890 J. R. Lowell Fitz Adam's Story in Poems (1890) IV. 206 Yet still the New World spooked it in his veins, A ghost he could not lay with all his pains.

1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 10 The ghost went with them, and there it still ‘spooks’ about as of yore.

1973 E.-J. Bahr Nice Neighbourhood xviii. 190 A free-wheeling teen-ager..[who] seems to be spooking around half-shot all the time.

b. To take fright; to become alarmed. North American slang.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > be apprehensive [verb (intransitive)] > be alarmed

tremble and trotc1425

fear1490

startle1562

to give (also take, raise) the alarm1570

to take alarm1587

to take bog1627

scare1900

to get (have)or put the breeze up1910

to get the wind up1916

spook1928

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being eerie > be eerie [verb (intransitive)] > play the spook

spook1871

spook1928

1928 R. Santee Cowboy xvii. 250 As luck would have it I got a throw, for the cattle spooked an' run.

1940 E. Hemingway For whom Bell Tolls xxii. 273 He'll probably leave tracks like an old bull elk spooking out of the country.

1957 W. Faulkner Town i. 14 The old dug-in city fathers..spooked to the desperate expedient of..exhuming..the story of the Cuban dice game.

1974 R. M. Pirsig Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance iii. xx. 245 I spook very easily these days... He never spooked at anything.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spook
释义	spookn. Brit. /spuːk/, U.S. /spuk/ Etymology: < Dutch spook, German spuk (also †spuch), apparently of Low German origin, appearing first in Middle Low German spôk, spoek, spouk, spûk (whence Middle Swedish spook, Danish spog), and older Dutch spoocke (Kilian); other modern forms are Low German spôk, spok, West Frisian spoek, North Frisian spook, spuk, Swedish spöke. No certain cognates have been traced. 1. A spectre, apparition, ghost. Often somewhat jocular or colloquial.First in American usage, which is illustrated separately in the first set of quotations. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] soulOE huea1000 ghostOE fantasyc1325 spiritc1350 phantomc1384 phantasmc1430 haunterc1440 shadowa1464 appearance1488 wraith1513 hag1538 spoorn1584 vizarda1591 life-in-death1593 phantasma1598 umbra1601 larve1603 spectre1605 spectrum1611 apparitiona1616 shadea1616 shapea1616 showa1616 idolum1619 larva1651 white hat?1693 zumbi1704 jumbie1764 duppy1774 waff1777 zombie1788 Wild Huntsman1796 spook1801 ghostie1810 hantua1811 preta1811 bodach1814 revenant1823 death-fetch1826 sowlth1829 haunt1843 night-bat1847 spectrality1850 thivish1852 beastie1867 ghost soul1869 barrow-wight1891 resurrect1892 waft1897 churel1901 comeback1908 (a) 1801 Massachusetts Spy 15 July By mine dunder I fly so swift as any spook. 1833 J. K. Paulding Banks of Ohio III. iii. 40 Who ever heard of a spook eating? a1853 ‘Dow, Jr.’ Patent Serm. iii. 158 There did I see a Spook, sure enough,—milk-white, and moving round. 1878 W. H. Daniels That Boy i The corners of New England which spooks and spirits were the last to leave. (b)1859 W. E. Aytoun & T. Martin tr. J. W. Goethe Poems & Ball., Magician's Apprentice 102 Broom, avaunt thee! To thy nook there! Lie, thou spook, there!1873 J. B. Stephens Black Gin 11 I am haunted by a spook with oblique eyes and a pigtail.1891 Tablet 19 Sept. 446 To what particular order of spook or spectre may he be assigned?attributive.1842 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 7 Mar. A-clatterin' the ghosts of dishes..as tho' he was bringin' in a spook-dinner.1878 A. Aylward Transvaal of To-day 213 I became acquainted with a ‘spooke story,’..which [etc.].1896 Westm. Gaz. 10 Jan. 3/3 An alleged spook-photo. 2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). An undercover agent; a spy. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [noun] > a secret observer, spy > secret agent intelligencer1540 intelligentiary1577 under-puller1682 agent1804 foreign agent1822 operative1901 spook1942 under-cover1962 Abwehr agent1990 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §458/16 ‘Spotter.’ (One who spys upon employees.).. Silent eye, spook, spotter. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §765/7 Rat, rubber heel, spook, spotter, a person employed to detect irregularities. 1954 People (Austral.) 3 Nov. 24/1 The spooks were senior constables who wore no uniform, worked in pairs and followed constables about the city and suburbs to see if they did their work properly. 1961 John o' London's 20 Apr. 434/1 The idea of making a living as a spy—‘spook’ in current Washington slang—is repugnant to most of us. 1966 R. Thomas Spy in Vodka (1967) vi. 50 I'd like him to get out of the spook business. 1979 L. Pryor Viper i. 9 ‘My training was also in espionage at the CIA farm.’.. ‘A spook,’ I said in wonder. 3. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). A derogatory term for a black person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] AfriceOE MoorOE EthiopOE blomana1225 Ethiopiana1325 blue mana1387 Moriana1387 black mana1398 blackamoor1525 black Morian1526 black boy1530 molen1538 Nigro1548 Nigrite1554 Negro1555 neger1568 nigger1577 blackfellow1598 Kaffir1607 black1614 thick-lipsa1616 Hubsheea1627 black African1633 blackface1704 sambo1704 Cuffee1713 Nigritian1738 fellow1753 Cuff1755 blacky1759 mungo1768 Quashie1774 darkie?1775 snowball1785 blue skin1788 Moriscan1794 sooterkin1821 nigc1832 tar-brush1835–40 Jim Crow1838 sooty1838 mokec1847 dinge1848 monkey1849 Siddi1849 dark1853 nigre1853 Negroid1860 kink1865 Sam1867 Rastus1882 schvartze1886 race man1896 possum1900 shine1908 jigaboo1909 smoke1913 golliwog1916 jazzbo1918 boogie1923 jig1924 melanoderm1924 spade1928 jit1931 Zulu1931 eight ball1932 Afro1942 nigra1944 spook1945 munt1948 Tom1956 boot1957 soul brother1957 nig-nog1959 member1962 pork chop1963 splib1964 blood1965 non-voter1966 moolinyan1967 Oreo1968 boogaloo1972 pongo1972 moolie1988 1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 17/2 Spook (n), frightened negro. 1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxvii. 262 The boss of the ward..was doing time for going with ‘spooks’—negroes. 1966 New Statesman 25 Nov. 778/1 I find a disturbing minority of my English contemporaries..pointedly tossing off inconsequential remarks about spades and spooks in my company. 1977 E. Leonard Unknown Man No. 89 xxiii. 235 We almost had another riot... The bar-owner..shoots a spook in his parking lot. Derivatives Hence (as more or less colloquial or nonce-formations). ˈspookic adj. ΚΠ 1887 Sat. Rev. 11 June 823/2 The new spookic studies have come to stay. ˈspookical adj. ΚΠ 1886 Sat. Rev. 11 Dec. 773/2 Those who have watched..the recent outburst of spookical activity. 1886 Athenæum 25 Dec. 858/2 The great thing in the book is the creation of the ‘spookical’ uncle. ˈspookish adj. ΚΠ 1893 Athenæum 18 Mar. 343/2 There is some spookish mystery about a reappearance. ˈspookism n. ΚΠ 1886 Athenæum 25 Dec. 858/2 By his own rash act he resolved himself into spookism. spookoˈlogical adj. ΚΠ 1897 Westm. Gaz. 6 July 2/3 Everything happened in the most orthodox spookological manner. spooˈkology n. ΚΠ 1893 Westm. Gaz. 15 July 5 Spookology in Vienna. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). spookv. Brit. /spuːk/, U.S. /spuk/ Etymology: < spook n. Compare Middle Low German spôken, Dutch spoken, German spuken (dialect spuchen); also West Frisian spoekje, North Frisian spooke, Swedish spöka, Danish spøge. 1. a. transitive. To haunt (a person or place). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [verb (transitive)] > haunt haunt1597 ghosta1616 sprighta1616 phantom1845 spook1883 1883 O. Schreiner Story Afr. Farm i. ii She heard a rustling,..and knew it was your father coming to ‘spook’ her. 1976 Publishers Weekly 21 June 88/1 The ghost of the highwayman Black Charlie who spooks Flora with regular visitations. b. To frighten or unnerve; spec. (of a hunter, etc.) to alarm (a wild animal). slang (chiefly North American). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing apprehension or alarm > alarm [verb (transitive)] misforgivea1425 feezec1440 effray1480 amaze?1518 misgivea1535 deter1595 baze1603 alarm1620 larum1758 to put the wind up1916 spook1935 1935 E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. i. i. 13 We spooked one [kudu]... No chance of a shot. 1944 National Geographic Mag. June 669/1 To get photographs of the herds Williams took to the saddle, since a man on foot is liable to ‘spook’, or stampede them. 1959 W. Faulkner Mansion ix. 222 Pupils and teacher both who were already spooked..by the sudden presence of the unexplained white woman. 1973 A. Garner Red Shift 12 You're spooking me. You're too quiet. 1980 M. Gordon Company of Women (1981) ii. iv. 187 You always act like you're waiting for something... It spooks me. 2. intransitive. a. To play the spook; to ‘walk’ as a ghost. Also with it and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [verb (intransitive)] > appear walka1400 spook1871 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being eerie > be eerie [verb (intransitive)] > play the spook spook1871 spook1928 1871 N.Y. Tribune 24 Feb. 1/5 Once he saw Toussaint L'Ouverture spooking about with an air of mournful majesty. 1886 Sat. Rev. 4 Dec. 751 Whether the Thibetan Adepts go spooking astrally through the world. 1890 J. R. Lowell Fitz Adam's Story in Poems (1890) IV. 206 Yet still the New World spooked it in his veins, A ghost he could not lay with all his pains. 1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 10 The ghost went with them, and there it still ‘spooks’ about as of yore. 1973 E.-J. Bahr Nice Neighbourhood xviii. 190 A free-wheeling teen-ager..[who] seems to be spooking around half-shot all the time. b. To take fright; to become alarmed. North American slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > be apprehensive [verb (intransitive)] > be alarmed tremble and trotc1425 fear1490 startle1562 to give (also take, raise) the alarm1570 to take alarm1587 to take bog1627 scare1900 to get (have)or put the breeze up1910 to get the wind up1916 spook1928 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being eerie > be eerie [verb (intransitive)] > play the spook spook1871 spook1928 1928 R. Santee Cowboy xvii. 250 As luck would have it I got a throw, for the cattle spooked an' run. 1940 E. Hemingway For whom Bell Tolls xxii. 273 He'll probably leave tracks like an old bull elk spooking out of the country. 1957 W. Faulkner Town i. 14 The old dug-in city fathers..spooked to the desperate expedient of..exhuming..the story of the Cuban dice game. 1974 R. M. Pirsig Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance iii. xx. 245 I spook very easily these days... He never spooked at anything. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1801v.1871
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