spook /spook/

1. A ghost
2. A spy, an undercover agent (slang, orig US)

1. To play the spook
2. To take fright
3. (of a horse) to shy away

To frighten, startle

Ghostly

spookˈery noun

1. Things that are spooky
2. Matters relating to spooks

spookˈily adverb

spookˈiness noun

• put to ransom
• put to rights
• put to sea
• put to shame
• put to sleep
• put to the blush
• put to the horn
• put to the ritz
• put to the sword
• put to the torch
• put to the worse
• putt out
• putts
• put two and two together
• putty
• putty-coloured
• putty-faced
• puttying
• putty-knife
• putty-knives
• putty-powder
• parasitologist
• parasitologists
• parasitology
• parasitoses