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单词 spook
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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