spook : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: spook	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for spook
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spook n someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook] a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" Synonym(s): ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre v frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action; "The noise spooked the horse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spook \Spook\, n. [D. spook; akin to G. spuk, Sw. sp[94]ke, Dan. sp[94]gelse a specter, sp[94]ge to play, sport, joke, sp[94]g a play, joke.] 1. A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written also {spuke}.] --Ld. Lytton. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The chim[91]ra.