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"word": "spookily"
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"word": "spookiness"
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"word": "spooky action at a distance"
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"word": "spooky PAC"
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"word": "spooky season"
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"name": "suf"
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],
"etymology_text": "From spook + -y.",
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"form": "spookier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
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"Speculative fiction",
"Culture",
"Entertainment",
"Writing",
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"Human behaviour",
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"Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural."
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"(informal) Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural."
],
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"informal"
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"_dis1": "88 8 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prizračen",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "призрачен"
},
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "strašidelný"
},
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"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "bhuthā",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"word": "भुतहा"
},
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"_dis1": "88 8 4",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"word": "nifs"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 8 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"word": "fantasmagórico"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 8 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sverxʺjestéstvennyj",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"word": "сверхъесте́ственный"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 8 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"word": "spöklik"
}
]
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"ref": "2011, Wilbur Page, I Had to Do It My Way!: One Man's Journey Through Life, page 88",
"text": "I thought it was nice, though I found it very quiet, and whenever I was alone in it, I felt spooky.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Spooked; afraid; frightened."
],
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"afraid",
"afraid"
],
[
"frightened",
"frightened"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Spooked; afraid; frightened."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
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"_dis": "27 21 51",
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"Unpredictably excitable; skittish (used especially of horses)."
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"Unpredictably",
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"skittish",
"skittish"
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"(informal) Unpredictably excitable; skittish (used especially of horses)."
],
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"informal"
],
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"_dis1": "5 5 90",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "plašliv",
"sense": "unpredictably excitable; skittish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "плашлив"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 5 90",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unpredictably excitable; skittish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vystrašený"
},
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"_dis1": "5 5 90",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unpredictably excitable; skittish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vyděšený"
}
]
}
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"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -y",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Requests for review of German translations",
"Requests for review of Mandarin translations",
"Rhymes:English/uːki",
"Rhymes:English/uːki/2 syllables",
"en:Ghosts",
"en:Horror"
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{
"word": "spookily"
},
{
"word": "spookiness"
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{
"word": "spooky action at a distance"
},
{
"word": "spooky PAC"
},
{
"word": "spooky season"
}
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"3": "y"
},
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"name": "suf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From spook + -y.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spookier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "spookiest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
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"pos": "adj",
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"categories": [
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"Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural."
],
"links": [
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"Eerie",
"eerie"
],
[
"ghost",
"ghost"
],
[
"supernatural",
"supernatural"
]
],
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"(informal) Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
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"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
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"ref": "2011, Wilbur Page, I Had to Do It My Way!: One Man's Journey Through Life, page 88",
"text": "I thought it was nice, though I found it very quiet, and whenever I was alone in it, I felt spooky.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Spooked; afraid; frightened."
],
"links": [
[
"afraid",
"afraid"
],
[
"frightened",
"frightened"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Spooked; afraid; frightened."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English informal terms"
],
"glosses": [
"Unpredictably excitable; skittish (used especially of horses)."
],
"links": [
[
"Unpredictably",
"unpredictably"
],
[
"excitable",
"excitable"
],
[
"skittish",
"skittish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Unpredictably excitable; skittish (used especially of horses)."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spuːki/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːki"
},
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"tags": [
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}
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"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prizračen",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "призрачен"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "strašidelný"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "bhuthā",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"word": "भुतहा"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"word": "nifs"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"word": "fantasmagórico"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sverxʺjestéstvennyj",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"word": "сверхъесте́ственный"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "eerie; suggestive of ghosts",
"word": "spöklik"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "plašliv",
"sense": "unpredictably excitable; skittish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "плашлив"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unpredictably excitable; skittish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vystrašený"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unpredictably excitable; skittish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vyděšený"
}
],
"word": "spooky"
}
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