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"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”). Doublet of puck.",
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"(informal) A ghost or phantom."
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"(informal) A scare or fright."
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"ref": "2009 July 24, “Spies like them”, in BBC News Magazine",
"text": "From Ian Fleming to John Le Carre - authors have long been fascinated by the world of espionage. But, asks the BBC’s Gordon Corera, what do real life spooks make of fictional spies?",
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{
"ref": "2012 October 13, “Huawei and ZTE: Put on hold”, in The Economist",
"text": "The congressional study frets that Huawei’s and ZTE’s products could be used as Trojan horses by Chinese spooks.",
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"(espionage, slang) An undercover agent or spy."
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"espionage",
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
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"word": "verspieder"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "spy",
"word": "vakooja"
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"sense": "spy",
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"word": "barbouze"
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"sense": "spy",
"word": "espion"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šṗioni",
"sense": "spy",
"word": "შპიონი"
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{
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ǯašuši",
"sense": "spy",
"word": "ჯაშუში"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "msṭovari",
"sense": "spy",
"word": "მსტოვარი"
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{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
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"code": "oc",
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"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"tags": [
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"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "špión",
"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "шпио́н"
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"ref": "1976, Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver, spoken by Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro)",
"text": "Some won't take spooks—hell, don't make no difference to me.",
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{
"ref": "2002 February, Don Spears, Playing for Keeps, Los Angeles: Milligan Books, →OCLC, page 179",
"text": "[…] Dryades Street and that whole uptown neighborhood is gonna be worth a fortune once the white people take it back from you spooks and develop it. […]",
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"A black person."
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"(slang, dated, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hēiguǐ",
"sense": "pejorative: black person",
"word": "黑鬼"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "pejorative: black person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nikker"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 0 1 5 89 0 1 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pejorative: black person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bamboula"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 0 1 5 89 0 1 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nígger",
"sense": "pejorative: black person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ни́ггер"
}
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"ref": "1845, Max Stirner, translated by Steven T. Byington, Der Einzige und sein Eigentum; republished as The Ego and His Own, Dover, 2005",
"text": "He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.",
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"(philosophy) A metaphysical manifestation; an artificial distinction or construct."
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"ref": "1975, Robert O. Pasnau, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, page 124",
"text": "Commonly, the surgeons view nonsurgeons with disdain. The most disdain is directed toward the “shrinks” or the “spooks,” as the psychiatrists are called.",
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"A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present."
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"_dis1": "14 12 8 10 11 15 15 15",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prizrak",
"sense": "spirit returning to haunt a place",
"tags": [
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"word": "призрак"
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"roman": "duh",
"sense": "spirit returning to haunt a place",
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"masculine"
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"word": "дух"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "spirit returning to haunt a place",
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"_dis1": "14 12 8 10 11 15 15 15",
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "spirit returning to haunt a place",
"word": "geest"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "spirit returning to haunt a place",
"word": "haamu"
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "spirit returning to haunt a place",
"word": "aave"
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "spirit returning to haunt a place",
"word": "kummitus"
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{
"_dis1": "14 12 8 10 11 15 15 15",
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "spirit returning to haunt a place",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fantomă"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "spirit returning to haunt a place",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spöke"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "spirit returning to haunt a place",
"word": "osalig ande"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prízrak",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "при́зрак"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spook"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "schijnsel"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"word": "haamu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"word": "aave"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"word": "kummitus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fantôme"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "močveneba",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"word": "მოჩვენება"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "molandeba",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"word": "მოლანდება"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Geist"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Phantom"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"word": "mangumangu taipō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"word": "taipō"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spuak"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fantomă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prízrak",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "при́зрак"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "ghost or phantom",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spöke"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "talasǎ́m",
"sense": "hobgoblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "таласъ́м"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hobgoblin",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kabouter"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hobgoblin",
"word": "peikko"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hobgoblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kobold"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hobgoblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Wicht"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "hobgoblin",
"word": "taipō"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hobgoblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spiriduș"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "spion"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "verspieder"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "spy",
"word": "vakooja"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "barbouze"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "spy",
"word": "espion"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šṗioni",
"sense": "spy",
"word": "შპიონი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ǯašuši",
"sense": "spy",
"word": "ჯაშუში"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "msṭovari",
"sense": "spy",
"word": "მსტოვარი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Geheimagent"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spion"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "espia"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "espion"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spion"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "špión",
"sense": "spy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шпио́н"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hēiguǐ",
"sense": "pejorative: black person",
"word": "黑鬼"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "pejorative: black person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nikker"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pejorative: black person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bamboula"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nígger",
"sense": "pejorative: black person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ни́ггер"
}
],
"word": "spook"
}
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"word": "spookhouse"
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{
"word": "spookiness"
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{
"word": "spookish"
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{
"word": "spookmaster"
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{
"word": "spook out"
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{
"word": "spooky"
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{
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"2": "Spuk"
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"expansion": "German Spuk",
"name": "cog"
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{
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"2": "spøge",
"t": "to haunt"
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"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "spöke",
"t": "ghost"
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{
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"2": "puck"
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"form": "spooks",
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"singular",
"third-person"
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{
"form": "spooking",
"tags": [
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"present"
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{
"form": "spooked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spooked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
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"text": "The hunters were spooked when the black cat crossed their path. The movement in the bushes spooked the deer and they ran.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 August 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 963, page 71",
"text": "As that was happening, an East Midlands train came through at 90mph. George [a Labrador] was spooked as the train went past him and ran backwards across the neighbouring slow lines and off towards the sidings.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"(transitive) To frighten or make nervous (especially by startling)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
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"English terms with usage examples"
],
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"text": "The deer spooked at the sound of the dogs.",
"type": "example"
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"To become frightened (by something startling)."
],
"links": [
[
"frighten",
"frighten"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To become frightened (by something startling)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To haunt."
],
"links": [
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"haunt",
"haunt"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To haunt."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spuːk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːk"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-spook.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/66/En-au-spook.ogg/En-au-spook.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/En-au-spook.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "spo͞ok"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"tags": [
"causative"
],
"word": "säikäyttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"tags": [
"frequentative"
],
"word": "säikytellä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"tags": [
"causative"
],
"word": "pelästyttää"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"word": "whakamataku"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"word": "whakaohorere"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"word": "speria"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pugátʹ",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"word": "пуга́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vspugivatʹ",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"word": "вспугивать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"word": "sobresaltar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"word": "asustar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"word": "espantar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"word": "aterrorizar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"word": "skrämma"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zljakáty",
"sense": "to scare or frighten",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "зляка́ти"
}
],
"word": "spook"
}
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