"poltergeisty" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1972, Thomas N. Scortia, Strange bedfellows: sex and science fiction:",
          "text": "I do my little poltergeisty numbers. I stack and restack my textbooks without leaving my bed. I move my shirt from the floor to the back of the chair.",
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          "ref": "1999, Alice Alfonsi, Eternal Sea:",
          "text": "He should be moving the covered furniture, or knocking down dusty paintings, jostling the ragged rug or rapping on stained walls — all of the usual poltergeisty endeavors[…]",
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          "ref": "2008, Malcolm Antony Nelson, 20 West: the great road across America, page 32:",
          "text": "At another time, in another place, this might have been dismissed as hysteria, nonsense, fraud, self-delusion, or just poltergeisty adolescent hormonal surges.",
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        "Resembling or characteristic of a poltergeist."
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        "(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a poltergeist."
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