"spookish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "spook + ish",
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      "form": "more spookish",
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          "ref": "1914, Edward Stratemeyer, chapter 22, in Dave Porter in the Gold Fields",
          "text": "I hope we find some nicer spot than this. This looks so lonely and spookish.",
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          "ref": "1930, H. L. Mencken, Treatise on the Gods, published 2006, pages 174–5",
          "text": "Religion is everywhere a gauge of respectability. . . . The right to participate, however humbly, in His august and transcendental operations offers a powerful satisfaction to the will to power; the same privilege, on a smaller scale, is what takes hordes of human blanks into the Freemasons and other such spookish amalgamations of nonentities.",
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        "Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky."
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        "(informal) Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky."
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          "ref": "1908, Sylvester Barbour, Reminiscences, published 2009, page 26",
          "text": "In those moments thus spent in composing myself for sleep, I sometimes wondered in the last human occupant of the room were not a dead one. I was senselessly spookish about such things.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2010, “Sarah $3000”, in isoldmyhorse.com, retrieved 2010-07-13",
          "text": "As a lesson horse she needs to gain confidence in her rider, or can become spookish over the jumps, dodging out of them.",
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        "Easily startled, frightened, or unnerved."
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        "(informal, often of a horse or other animal) Easily startled, frightened, or unnerved."
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          "sense": "easily startled or frightened",
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          "ref": "1930, H. L. Mencken, Treatise on the Gods, published 2006, pages 174–5",
          "text": "Religion is everywhere a gauge of respectability. . . . The right to participate, however humbly, in His august and transcendental operations offers a powerful satisfaction to the will to power; the same privilege, on a smaller scale, is what takes hordes of human blanks into the Freemasons and other such spookish amalgamations of nonentities.",
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        "(informal) Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky."
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        },
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        "(informal, often of a horse or other animal) Easily startled, frightened, or unnerved."
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