Meaning of "spook" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SPOOK

Dutch spook, from Middle Low German spōk ghost.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SPOOK

spook  [spuːk]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPOOK

Spook is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb spook in English.

WHAT DOES SPOOK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Spook

Spook is a synonym of ghost or apparition. It may also refer to: ▪ Agents or people involved in espionage ▪ Agents or people involved in military intelligence ▪ A racial slur used for black people ▪ Mine Protected Combat Vehicle, a Zimbabwean armoured fighting vehicle nicknamed the "Spook" People ▪ Spook Jacobs, American professional baseball player Culture ▪ A character from The Wardstone Chronicles ▪ A character in the comic strip The Wizard of Id ▪ A character from Top Cat ▪ Spook Hill, a gravity hill in Florida ▪ Spook Cave, a flooded cave in Iowa ▪ Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, a humorous scientific exploration of the afterlife, by Mary Roach ▪ Spook, fictional character in the DC Comics universe The plural Spooks may refer to: Culture ▪ Spooks, a UK TV show ▪ The Spooks, an American hip-hop band ▪ Spooks!, a 1953 Three Stooges short film ▪ Spooks 2010 album by The Beautiful Girls ▪ Spooks , a 1930 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short ▪ Spooks, a 1985 video game...

Definition of spook in the English dictionary

The first definition of spook in the dictionary is a ghost or a person suggestive of this. Other definition of spook is any pale or colourless alcoholic spirit. Spook is also to frighten.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SPOOK

PRESENT

Present

I spook

you spook

he/she/it spooks

we spook

you spook

they spook

Present continuous

I am spooking

you are spooking

he/she/it is spooking

we are spooking

you are spooking

they are spooking

Present perfect

I have spooked

you have spooked

he/she/it has spooked

we have spooked

you have spooked

they have spooked

Present perfect continuous

I have been spooking

you have been spooking

he/she/it has been spooking

we have been spooking

you have been spooking

they have been spooking

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I spooked

you spooked

he/she/it spooked

we spooked

you spooked

they spooked

Past continuous

I was spooking

you were spooking

he/she/it was spooking

we were spooking

you were spooking

they were spooking

Past perfect

I had spooked

you had spooked

he/she/it had spooked

we had spooked

you had spooked

they had spooked

Past perfect continuous

I had been spooking

you had been spooking

he/she/it had been spooking

we had been spooking

you had been spooking

they had been spooking

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will spook

you will spook

he/she/it will spook

we will spook

you will spook

they will spook

Future continuous

I will be spooking

you will be spooking

he/she/it will be spooking

we will be spooking

you will be spooking

they will be spooking

Future perfect

I will have spooked

you will have spooked

he/she/it will have spooked

we will have spooked

you will have spooked

they will have spooked

Future perfect continuous

I will have been spooking

you will have been spooking

he/she/it will have been spooking

we will have been spooking

you will have been spooking

they will have been spooking

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would spook

you would spook

he/she/it would spook

we would spook

you would spook

they would spook

Conditional continuous

I would be spooking

you would be spooking

he/she/it would be spooking

we would be spooking

you would be spooking

they would be spooking

Conditional perfect

I would have spook

you would have spook

he/she/it would have spook

we would have spook

you would have spook

they would have spook

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been spooking

you would have been spooking

he/she/it would have been spooking

we would have been spooking

you would have been spooking

they would have been spooking

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you spook
we let´s spook
you spook

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to spook

Past participle

spooked

Present Participle

spooking

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SPOOK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «spook» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of spook

affright · alarm · apparition · daunt · double agent · eidolon · fifth columnist · foreign agent · frighten · get the wind up · ghost · intimidate · kehua · manes · mole · nark · petrify · phantasm · phantom · revenant · scare · secret agent · shade · soul · spectre · spirit · spy · startle · terrify · unnerve · wraith

TRANSLATION OF SPOOK

Find out the translation of spook to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of spook from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spook» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 寝食不安
• Translator English - Spanish: spook
• English: spook
• Translator English - Hindi: भूत
• Translator English - Arabic: شبح
• Translator English - Russian: привидение
• Translator English - Portuguese: fantasma
• Translator English - Bengali: ভূত
• Translator English - French: effrayer
• Translator English - Malay: Berani
• Translator English - German: Spuk
• Translator English - Japanese: 幽霊
• Translator English - Korean: 필자
• Translator English - Javanese: Spook
• Translator English - Vietnamese: ma quỉ
• Translator English - Tamil: கறுப்பன்
• Translator English - Marathi: स्पूक
• Translator English - Turkish: hortlak
• Translator English - Italian: spettro
• Translator English - Polish: zjawa
• Translator English - Ukrainian: привид
• Translator English - Romanian: stafie
• Translator English - Greek: φάντασμα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: spook
• Translator English - Swedish: spöke
• Translator English - Norwegian: Spook

4 QUOTES WITH «SPOOK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word spook.

1

John Huston

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

2

Derrick Jensen

My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home.

3

Lana Parrilla

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

4

Max Stirner

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.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPOOK»

Discover the use of spook in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spook and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we ...

Mary Roach, 2006

The Spook's Secret

The Spook's Secret is the third book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide!

Joseph Delaney, 2009

The Spook who Sat by the Door: A Novel

The CIA's first Black officer uses his training in organizing a ghetto army to destroy white America This book is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 60s and a serious attempt to focuses on the issue ...

Sam Greenlee, 1990

The Spook's Blood

The Spook's Blood is the tenth book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide!

Joseph Delaney, 2012

Spook Country

The “cool and scary”( SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Hollis Henry is a journalist on investigative assignment for a magazine called Node, which doesn’t exist yet.

William Gibson, 2007

Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour

Scary incidents at midnight give Biff the dog and his master a frightening time but all turn out to have good explanations.

Eve Bunting, 1989

Spook Rock

It had escaped the tyranny of the witch hunters and made its home in Spook Rock, a tiny backwoods commune, its throat held in a death grip by an evil force more powerful than time itself.

Pasquale Morrone, 2004

The Spook's Mistake

The Spook's Mistake is the fifth book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide!

Joseph Delaney, 2014

The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre

A cowering woman is strangled in the dead of night. These are just some of the countless victims for whom all hope is lost in Ambrose Bierce’s chilling stories of death, delusion and the supernatural.

Ambrose Bierce, 2008

The Spook's Curse

The Spook's Curse is the second book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide!

Joseph Delaney, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPOOK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spook is used in the context of the following news items.

See Laura Jane Grace and Transgender-Fronted Band Spook …

When Scottish indie rockers the Spook School stopped through New York City recently, Rolling Stone set up an earnest sit-down to introduce them to the singer ... «RollingStone.com, Jul 15»

Hellrazor/Spook the Herd, Split CS

Spook the Herd is a supergroup of sorts: Morgan Luzzi and Theo Hartlett were in the recently defunct Connecticut band Ovlov; Jesse Weiss plays in the ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»

Former judge to be spook watchdog

Former judge to be spook watchdog. National Breaking News. From: AAP; 6 hours ago July 16, 2015 4:29PM. Share; Share on Facebook; Share on Twitter ... «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»

The Spook School played Popfest, share "Burn Masculinity" video …

Scottish band The Spook School just played Saturday at Knitting Factory as part of NYC Popfest. I missed their set, as I left Knit to Cake Shop to see SAVAK and ... «Brooklyn Vegan, Jun 15»

Interview: Spook The Horses

In the four years between their albums, Wellington band Spook The Horses has channeled that kind of vision. Their first album Brighter, released back in 2011, ... «Undertheradar, Jun 15»

A worrying lack of scrutiny as former spook joins BP's board

Acoba sounds like a villainous organisation in one of the James Bond films, possibly a Roger Moore-era version where the baddies are hiding out in a space ... «The Independent, May 15»

Police: Driver was on meth before fatal crash

Twenty-six-year-old Spook Meras was charged with two counts of manslaughter and two counts of injury to a child Monday. The charges come more than a year ... «KTVB, May 15»

A Top Spook Reunion, of Sorts

It's not every day that 10 former CIA directors and 10 former deputies get together. But when The New York Times recently saw fit to publish the names of three ... «GovExec.com, May 15»

Abbott calls in Britain's former top cyber spook

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced that the United Kingdom's former chief communications and cyber spy has joined the high level panel of experts ... «Government News, Apr 15»

Spook Road Update

There's an update on the efforts to preserve the trees along Spook Road near Brandon. Organizers have a year to come up with a solution to save the iconic ... «KELOLAND TV, Apr 15»