"ghoulie ghoul" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: ghoulie ghouls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ghoulie ghoul (plural ghoulie ghouls)
  1. (rare, informal, hypocoristic) A ghoul (ghostly spirit). Tags: familiar, informal, rare Synonyms: ghoulie-ghoul, ghoulie [common]
    Sense id: en-ghoulie_ghoul-en-noun-h6sTON8g Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Principal Shawbly: Now if I started allowing vampires in the classroom, what would be next? Werewolves? Ghoulie-ghouls?"
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          "ref": "2008, Francesca Lia Block, Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 157:",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Will Aldis, Lily Wyatt, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 109:",
          "text": "Gobbly goblins and ghoulie ghouls throw a dead man's party in the center of me, dancing around the bonfire.",
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          "ref": "2016, Stephen Dilley, A Brains Poetry, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:",
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